Dutch East India Company Tapestries

"What is the East India Trading Company doing in the Caribbean?" "Well, we are East of India. Just the long way around. After all, when goods do not cross borders, then armies will." The East India Trading Company, otherwise referred to as the East India Company or abbreviated as EITC, was a British joint-stock company and megacorporation formed for pursuing and monopolizing trade with the Indian subcontinent and East Indies, and later expanded to China and the Caribbean. The East India Company traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600. Shares of the Company were owned by wealthy merchants and aristocrats.

Treason.

Logo for the East India Trading Company

Coin logo inspired by Taboo tv show on BBC.

The United East India Company was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Shares in the company could be bought by any resident of the United Provinces and then subsequently bought and sold in open-air secondary markets. It is sometimes considered to have been the first multinational corporation. It was a powerful company, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, strike its own coins, and establish colonies.

Dutch East India Company

Coin logo inspired by Taboo tv show on BBC.

I have a use for you.

Nice pencil drawing of an old Dutch West India Company ship.

Banner design inspired by Taboo tv show on BBC.

"It is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind."

The 1600's witnessed the birth of the world's first corporations. An era of Monopolies - giants of trade and global commerce. Corporations like the Hudson bay company, the Dutch East India Company, and others wielded unimaginable economic and military power in a world where many of the lines of statehood and imperialist conquest had yet to be inked. Many comparisons can be drawn from the Merchant empires and monopolies of old to the rise of contemporary global mercantile giants such as Amazon and Walmart, and this design is a throwback to the now infamous logo of the British East India Company, translated into a modern context, but intending to keep the same powerful yet perhaps sinister meaning behind it.

Tom Hardy's James Delaney, from Taboo, sporting tattoos and a Sankofa.

Moody Delaney in the moonlight in a red palette

Quotes from James Delaney, from the FX series Taboo

Boston Tea Party. 19th-century illustration of the destruction of tea in Boston Harbour on 16 December 1773, an event known as the Boston Tea Party. This was a political protest by a group of colonists in defiance of the British requirement to purchase tea from the East India Company. This was one of the events that led to the outbreak of open warfare two years later in 1775 as part of the American Revolution (1775-1783). This lithograph, by Sarony and Major, was published in New York in around October 1846.

Map of the Atlantic coasts. 17th-century map of the Atlantic Ocean and its coastlines, produced in 1660 by Dutch cartographer Pieter Goos (1616-1675). The title ('West-Indische paskaert', centre right) refers to the territorial holdings of the Dutch West India Company (founded 1621). The rhumb lines and naming of rivers and ports along the coastlines makes this a portolan navigational chart. Southern South America is shown in an inset at lower left. Dutch text (upper left) names the map-maker and the city of publication (Amsterdam). Overseas territories are marked by European coats-of-arms: Spanish, Dutch, French, English, Portuguese.

A high resolution, high detailed replica of the Sao Feng Map from Pirates of the Carribean At Worlds End and On Stranger Tides

coffee is for kids, tea is for colonists

Did you know: The Black Pearl, originally Wicked Wench, is a fictional ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In the screenplay, the Black Pearl is easily recognized by her distinctive black hull and sails. The ship was originally named Wicked Wench before she was ordered burned and sunk by Lord Beckett. She was later raised from the sea floor by Davy Jones after making a pact with Jack Sparrow who rechristened her the Black Pearl. She is said to be "nigh uncatchable". Indeed, in the first three films she either overtakes or flees all other ships, including the Interceptor (regarded as the fastest ship in the Caribbean) and the Flying Dutchman (which is actually faster against the wind). Her speed is derived from the large ...

The Account Keeper (1656) by Nicolaes Maes, digitally remastered.