A new issue of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art is published. This special issue, co-edited by Marsely Kehoe and Carrie Anderson, debuts their collaborative Dutch Textile Trade project and website (dutchtextiletrade.org), which examines the economic data of the Dutch East and West India Company archives alongside the visual and material record of historic trade textiles. The website also provides downloadable data and dynamic visualizations. The issue features a lead article about the project and a series of shorter essays by established and emerging experts in historic textiles and digital art history and digital humanities. This issue examines the textiles traded by the Dutch East and West India Companies across the globe, patterns of consumption, and the relationship between the visual and material record of textiles and archival documentation.
Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global Market
Winter 2023 issue (vol. 15.1)
Contents
Editors’ Greeting
Jacquelyn N. Coutré, Bret Rothstein, Joanna Woodall, Alison Kettering
Dutch Textile Trade: Issue and Project Introduction|
Carrie Anderson, Marsely Kehoe
Textile Circulation in the Dutch Global Market: A Digital Approach
Carrie Anderson, Marsely Kehoe
The Dutch Textile Trade Project and the Development of JHNA’s Digital Art History Capabilities
Jennifer Henel
Part I: Researchers in the Field
The Filaments of the Textile Trade: Subtle and Broad Trends in Exports from South Asia to Maritime Southeast Asia
Sylvia Houghteling
Locating the Madras Kerchief in Global Textile Trade: Convergences between Connecting Threads and the Dutch Textile Trade Project
Victoria de Lorenzo, Avalon Fotheringham, Deepthi Murali, Meha Priyadarshini
The Fascination with Japanese-Styled Gowns: A Quantitative Perspective on Ready-Made Garments at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
Angelina Illes|
From ‘Sits’ to ‘Spices’: Dutch Interactions with the Global Circulation of Indian Textiles
Chris Nierstrasz
Part II: Topics in the Digital Humanities: Projects, Methods, and Resources
New Netherland Documents and the Digital Archive
Deborah Hamer
The Façade of Neutrality: Unearthing Hidden Histories in the Montias Database with Digital Methodologies
Lauryn Smith
Connecting (described) Fibers: Controlled Vocabularies of Global Textiles
Jennifer Henel
All articles are available through jhna.org
Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
JHNA publishes peer-reviewed original scholarship, across a range of methodological approaches, on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and material culture dating from the medieval period through the eighteenth century. It also publishes state of research and critical essays, as well as English translations of significant articles originally published in other languages. JHNA welcomes the submission of manuscripts from scholars at every career stage. We also encourage proposals for state-of-research and critical essays. For more information, see jhna.org.