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Not Even the Pope Can Maintain a Monopoly

By Virginia Postrel Mar 23, 2019, 6:00 am145 pts
Religiously traumatic and militarily ominous, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 also created a crisis for the European textile industry. The problem, in a word, was alum. To securely attach to fibers, most dyes need chemical help: a mineral salt known as a mordant, from the Latin word mordere,…

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