Selling textiles in the long eighteenth century : comparative perspectives from Western Europe / edited by Jon Stobart, Bruno Blonde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stobart, Jon, 1966-

Blondé, B. (Bruno), 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Europe, Western--History--18th century.

Textile industry.

Textile industry--Marketing.

History.

Western Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2014.

Summary:

Textiles are a key component of the industrial, industrious and consumer revolutions, which are seen as transforming the economy, society and culture of Western Europe during the long eighteenth century. Yet we lack a coherent picture of how the marketing of textiles varied across time and between different regions and countries. This book provides important new insights into the ways in which changes in the supply of textiles related to shifting patterns of demand, not just in terms of imported novelties such as chintz, but also more traditional, locally-produced and even second-hand textiles. It focuses on the processes and practices of retailing, and assesses how these responded to and promoted wider changes in value systems and supply networks. It encompasses discussion of fashion and taste, advertising and pricing, cultural norms and local tradition, cleanliness and hygiene, shopkeepers and stock.

Contents:

Introduction; Bruno Blonéd and Jon Stobart

1.An Education in Comfort: Indian Textiles and the Remaking of English Homes over the Long Eighteenth Century; Beverly Lemire

2.Making the Bed in later Stuart and Georgian England; Sara Pennell

3.Customers and Markets for 'New' Textiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Sweden; Lili-Anèn Aldman

4.The International Textile Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, 1750-1791; Ann Coenen

5.Material Marketing: How Lyonnais Silk Manufacturers Sold Silks, 1660-1789; Lesley Miller

6.Rural Retailing of Textiles in Early Nineteenth-century Sweden; Pia Lundqvist and Anna Brismark

7.New Products, New Sellers? Changes in the Dutch Textile Trades, c. 1650-1750; Danielle van den Heuvel

8.'According to the latest and most elegant fashion'. Retailing Textiles and Changes in Supply and Demand in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Antwerp; Bruno Blonéd, Laura Van Aert and Ilja Van Damme

9.Taste and Textiles: Selling Fashion in Eighteenth-century Provincial England; Jon Stobart

10.Luxury and Revolution: Selling High Status Sarments in Revolutionary France; Natacha Coquery

11.Second-hand Trade and Respectability: Mediating Consumer Trust in Old Textiles and Used Clothing (Low Countries, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries); Ilja Van Damme

12.Urban Markets for Used Textiles: Examples from Eighteenth-century Central Europe; Georg Stger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.

ISBN:

1137295201

9781137295200

113729521X

9781137295217

OCLC:

892821966

Publisher Number:

99960375109