European colonial expansion was driven by desire for cloth and adornment

Evidence

The desire to cover and adorn the European body is a central impetus behind the bloody rise to globality of this region. Cloth is among the earliest portable luxury goods to remake the earth in the image of trade and crime. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2844

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the global economy’s origins rooted in textile desire — connecting Indian calico, African wax prints, European wool, and colonial extraction.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the Immodesty article’s theme of dress as economic-political force, here extending to cloth’s role in colonial globality itself.