Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Perspectives from Western Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction. Selling Textiles in the Eighteenth Century: Perspectives on Consumer and Retail Change....Pages 1-12
An Education in Comfort: Indian Textiles and the Remaking of English Homes over the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 13-29
Making the Bed in Later Stuart and Georgian England....Pages 30-45
Customers and Markets for ‘New’ Textiles in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden....Pages 46-66
The International Textile Trade in the Austrian Netherlands, 1750–1791....Pages 67-84
Material Marketing: How Lyonnais Silk Manufacturers Sold Silks, 1660–1789....Pages 85-98
Rural Retailing of Textiles in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden....Pages 99-117
New Products, New Sellers? Changes in the Dutch Textile Trades, c. 1650–1750....Pages 118-137
‘According to the Latest and Most Elegant Fashion’: Retailing Textiles and Changes in Supply and Demand in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Antwerp....Pages 138-159
Taste and Textiles: Selling Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Provincial England....Pages 160-178
Luxury and Revolution: Selling High-Status Garments in Revolutionary France....Pages 179-192
Second-Hand Trade and Respectability: Mediating Consumer Trust in Old Textiles and Used Clothing (Low Countries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)....Pages 193-209
Urban Markets for Used Textiles — Examples from Eighteenth-Century Central Europe....Pages 210-225
Back Matter....Pages 226-238