Wrapping the Globe

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This exhibition was first held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, and was inspired by tradecloth, European-made woollen cloth traded globally, used on a number of objects within the Museum’s World Cultures collection.

Since its introduction to the global market, communities around the world have used European made wool cloth in place of traditional materials in the making and decorating of clothing and other items.
The focus here is on cloths imported to North America by the Hudson’s Bay Company, which traded from the late 1600s with Native Americans in northern North America, and the British East India Company which traded widely in Asia from the 17th century.