Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764 by Ellis Miller, Lesley

Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764

In 1764, British customs confiscated a book containing hundreds of samples of different qualities of silks from...
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Author: Lesley Ellis Miller
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Language: English
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Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764 by Ellis Miller, Lesley

Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764

$158.55

Selling Silks: A Merchant's Sample Book 1764

$158.55
Author: Lesley Ellis Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Lesley Ellis Miller
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 05/20/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.83lbs
Size: 12.40h x 9.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781851777815

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




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