Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century

Introduction; Bruno Blonde 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-Anne 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 Blonde, 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 Stoger