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Title Factory Records, Diaries and Letters of the East India Company: Textiles, Porcelain and Other Items from Siam
Reference IOR/G/33
Library The British Library
Date 1678-1683
Description Diaries and letters, 1679-1683. Copies of letters despatched, 1681-1683. Copies of letters received, 1678-1679.
Document Type Manuscript, Journal, Correspondence
Primary Commodity Porcelain
Theme Trade and Commerce
Keywords silk, fancy goods, ceramic, factory, china, craft, artisan, commerce, exportation, importation, manufacturing, textiles, merchant, port, shipping, costs and prices
Region Europe, South East Asia
Places England; Thailand
Company or Organisation East India Company
Additional Information Siam was first visited by the "Globe" in 1612 on the tenth voyage. The Company's merchants readily obtained permission to trade there. Siam's chief importance to the Company lay in its trade with China from where raw silk, silk goods and porcelain could be obtained. However, trade reached no great volume and in 1626 the Directors ordered the factory's closure. The factory was re-established in 1666 but when the Dutch drove the English out of Bantam in 1682, it was given up.
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