Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] : Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe /
Stobart, Jon.editor.
Blondé, Bruno.editor.
Textiles are a key component of the industrial and consumer revolutions, yet we lack a coherent picture of how the marketing of textiles varied across the long 18th century and between different regions. This book provides important new insights into the ways in which changes in the supply of textiles related to shifting patterns of demand.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction. Selling Textiles in the Eighteenth Century: Perspectives on Consumer and Retail Change; 1 An Education in Comfort: Indian Textiles and the Remaking of English Homes over the Long Eighteenth Century; 2 Making the Bed in Later Stuart and Georgian England; 3 Customers and Markets for 'New' Textiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden; 4 The International Textile Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, 1750-1791
5 Material Marketing: How Lyonnais Silk Manufacturers Sold Silks, 1660-17896 Rural Retailing of Textiles in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden; 7 New Products, New Sellers? Changes in the Dutch Textile Trades, c. 1650-1750; 8 'According to the Latest and Most Elegant Fashion': Retailing Textiles and Changes in Supply and Demand in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Antwerp; 9 Taste and Textiles: Selling Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Provincial England; 10 Luxury and Revolution: Selling High-Status Garments in Revolutionary France
11 Second-Hand Trade and Respectability: Mediating Consumer Trust in Old Textiles and Used Clothing (Low Countries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)12 Urban Markets for Used Textiles - Examples from eighteenth-Century Central Europe; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Textiles are a key component of the industrial and consumer revolutions, yet we lack a coherent picture of how the marketing of textiles varied across the long 18th century and between different regions. This book provides important new insights into the ways in which changes in the supply of textiles related to shifting patterns of demand.
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