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3 - Zarazas, Bayetas, and Bogotanas

Adapting Foreign Textiles to Popular Consumers’ Demands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2024

Ana María Otero-Cleves
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University of York
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Based on the recorded experiences of foreign merchants and local shopkeepers, literature, and visual sources, Chapter 3 delves into how the tastes and preferences of Colombia’s Plebeian consumers influenced the production of textiles abroad. It shows how their demands for specific colors, designs, and shapes were communicated through a chain of intermediaries to manufacturers in the United States and England, who risked having their merchandise returned and losing customers if they failed to comply. The chapter emphasizes that terms of trade were never solely determined by US or European interests; the preferences of everyday Colombian men and women actively shaped the republic’s marketplace.

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Plebeian Consumers
Global Connections, Local Trade, and Foreign Goods in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
, pp. 83 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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