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Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes

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Following an earlier Act of 1700 prohibiting the import of finished Asian cottons, the 1721 Act went further and banned the use and wearing of most printed calicoes in Britain. The intended beneficiary was the woollen and silk interest, which had lobbied hard against Indian cloth landed by the East India Company. The unintended beneficiary was the infant British cotton trade, which was handed a protected home market and an incentive to make domestically what it could no longer import.

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  1. Story
  2. Following an earlier Act of 1700 prohibiting the import of finished Asian cottons, the 1721 Act went further and banned the use and wearing of most printed calicoes in Britain. The intended beneficiary was the woollen and silk interest, which had lobbied hard against Indian cloth landed by the East India Company. The unintended beneficiary was the infant British cotton trade, which was handed a protected home market and an incentive to make domestically what it could no longer import.
  3. Knowledge
  4. English (later British) East India Company
  5. Raw cotton
  6. The British textile industry
  7. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  8. Connections
  9. English (later British) East India Company
  10. The British textile industry
  11. Raw cotton
  12. Opium
  13. Assam
  14. Tea
  15. Robert Fortune
  16. Qing trade confined to Canton
  17. Boston Tea Party
  18. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  19. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  20. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
  21. The Opium Wars
  22. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
  23. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  24. The spinning jenny
  25. Raw cotton
  26. The Engels pause
  27. The Factory Inspectorate
  28. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  29. Hargreaves devises the spinning jenny
  30. Crompton completes the spinning mule
  31. The rotative engine turns a shaft
  32. Cartwright patents the power loom
  33. Arkwright's patents are overturned
  34. The handloom weavers are displaced
  35. The Great Exhibition
  36. Liverpool
  37. The British textile industry
  38. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  39. Crompton completes the spinning mule
  40. Evidence
  41. Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
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