Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History SocietyA richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss emigre merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.

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Opdateret den: 20-11-2024 08:30