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The Larder Index

TRADE

The Trades

Forty product groups, from additives to wine: the federations and sources of each shelf.

every plate on this shelf

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Forty small plain spice tins on a dark pantry shelf, unmarked, the last tin catching a thin line of light.

plate IVThe Trades

The Chocolate Shelf

Reads the chocolate shelf as the exception that shows what a trade page was built to do when no single federation could stand for it.

Forty small plain spice tins on a dark pantry shelf, unmarked, the last tin catching a thin line of light.

plate IIIThe Trades

Forty Shelves of Trade

Reads the product-group axis of the index and how a trade page was stocked.

A loaf of dark bread, a stoneware beer stein, and a handful of grain on a slate slab, photographed in a single shaft of light.

plate IThe Trades

Bread, Beer and Cereals

Reads the grain shelves of the index and the European bodies they pointed to.

A brass scoop resting on a burlap sack of coffee beans beside a tin of tea, on a dark wooden counter in low light.

plate IIThe Trades

The Coffee and Tea Shelf

Reads how the index shelved the two great hot drinks and their European institutions.