Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764 - Rilegato

Miller, Lesley Ellis

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ISBN 10: 1851777814 ISBN 13: 9781851777815

Casa editrice: Victoria & Albert Pubns, 2014

Riassunto

In 1764, British customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of samples of different qualities of silks from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. This merchant’s sample book was acquired in 1972 by the Victoria and Albert Museum, and today it provides a fascinating record of the 18th-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices. Alongside a full and faithful reproduction of the whole beautiful album—an extremely rare, fragile, and significant object—Lesley Miller describes how the sample book was a marketing tool for the premier European silk-weaving center of Lyon, France, and a model for English textile manufacturers in Spitalfields. She also discusses how the silks were made and for whom through the use of contemporary portraits and archival documents dating to the 1760s. The album itself is astonishing, reproducing hundreds of patterns.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lesley Ellis Miller is senior curator of textiles and fashion (pre-1800) at the V&A.

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In 1764, British Customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of silk samples of different qualities from French agents who were attempting to sell them illegally in London. The merchant's sample book acquired in 1972 by the V&A may be this very book, a fascinating record of the eighteenth-century French and English silk industries and their commercial practices. Alongside a full and faithful reproduction of the whole album, Lesley Miller sets in context the role of the book as a marketing tool from the premier European silk-weaving centre of Lyon and as a model for Spitalfields manufacturers. This publication makes accessible the contents of an extremely rare and fragile object. Translations of French inscriptions, identification of how samples have migrated from one page to another, and technical analysis of some of the silks, as well as a glossary and biographical data on the Lyonnais suppliers make this an invaluable resource for historians, collectors and designers.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Victoria & Albert Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1851777814
• ISBN 13: 9781851777815
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 271
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile