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"... the mechanical crafts of the Spanish have all ceased, because they all dress and wear with sangleys, for being very good crafters, in the style of Spain, and they do everything very cheap..." (Domingo de Salazar, 1590)
In the letter by Fr. Domingo de Salazar: Of the things of China and the Chinese in the Parian of Manila, sent to King Felipe II, the first bishop of the Philippines, the Dominican friar describes –sometimes with curiosity, others with true anguish – the ability of the sangleys to almost perfectly imitate the merchandise and other "curious things" that the Spanish had brought to the islands of the South Sea and that they needed for their subsistence and exchange. So skillful were the sangleys* at copying Spanish objects that Domingo de Salazar warned that it was a matter of time for them to replace European artists and craftsmen: "The churches are being provided with the images they make, those that had previously been missing, and based on the skill they show in…
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"... the mechanical crafts of the Spanish have all ceased, because they all dress and wear with sangleys, for being very good crafters, in the style of Spain, and they do everything very cheap..." (Domingo de Salazar, 1590)
In the letter by Fr. Domingo de Salazar: Of the things of China and the Chinese in the Parian of Manila, sent to King Felipe II, the first bishop of the Philippines, the Dominican friar describes –sometimes with curiosity, others with true anguish – the ability of the sangleys to almost perfectly imitate the merchandise and other "curious things" that the Spanish had brought to the islands of the South Sea and that they needed for their subsistence and exchange. So skillful were the sangleys* at copying Spanish objects that Domingo de Salazar warned that it was a matter of time for them to replace European artists and craftsmen: "The churches are being provided with the images they make, those that had previously been missing, and based on the skill they show in…
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