Along with several expeditions, where some of the Apostles were engaged and participated - on James Cook's first and second circumnavigations, in the Danish scientific expedition to South Arabia and the Imperial Academy of Sciences - expeditions in Russia. In these travellers' extensive 18th century journals, scientific instructions, correspondence etc., together with Linnaeus' own works; various textile traditions and clothes were taken into account. Like descriptions of wool and woollen cloth, the manufacturing process of indigo, the importance of the commerce via the Silk Road and other caravan routes as well as the East India trade of luxury fabrics, linens, textile dyes and much more via harbours in Cadix, Madeira, St Helena, the Cape, Surat, Java and Canton in the main."--Introduction.