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Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764 / Lesley Ellis Miller.

Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764 / Lesley Ellis Miller.
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ISBN 9781851777815 (hardback)
Author Miller, Lesley Ellis (author)
Title Selling silks : a merchant's sample book 1764 / Lesley Ellis Miller.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London : V&A Publishing, 2014.
Description 271 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-265) and index.
Contents Introduction. French silks in fashion: products and wearers. Manufacturing and selling Lyonnais silks. GG: the key to the sample book. The merchant's sample book: vital statistics -- The merchant's sample book -- Appendices. 1. technical analysis of fabric sample by Helen Persson. 2. Merchant manufacturers in T.373-1972. 3. Surviving designs of L. Galy, Gallien et Cie, 1761-72.
Summary 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.
Subjects Victoria and Albert Museum -- Catalogs
Victoria and Albert Museum
Silk industry -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Silk industry
Silk -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Catalogs
Silk -- Sample books -- Pictorial works
Samplers
Textile fabrics -- Sample books
Textile fabrics
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Stephenson, Johanna (editor)
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