PASOLD STUDIES IN TEXTILE, DRESS AND FASHION HISTORY
From 2018, the Pasold Research Fund in partnership with Boydell & Brewer will publish an important new series of research monographs and collections of research essays on textile, dress and fashion history. For further information, follow the link below -
https://boydellandbrewer.com/series/pasold-studies-in-textile-dress-fashion-history.html
THE FIRST VOLUME IN THE NEW PASOLD BOOK SERIES PUBLISHED JOINTLY WITH BOYDELL & BREWER:
Dagmar Schafer, Giorgio Riello and Luca Mola, eds, Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World, published in May 2018.
Information: Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world. Silk has long been a global commodity that, because of its exceptional qualities, high value and relative portability, came to be traded over very long distances. Similarly, the silk industry - from sericulture to the weaving of cloth - was one of the most important fields of production in the medieval and early modern world. The production and consumption of silks spread from China to Japan and Korea and travelled westward as far as India, Persia and the Byzantine Empire, Europe, Africa and the Americas. As contributors to this book demonstrate, in this process of diffusion silk fostered technological innovation and allowed new forms of organization of labour to emerge. Its consumption constantly reshaped social hierarchies, gender roles, aesthetic and visual cultures, as well as rituals and representations of power. Threads of Global Desire is the first attempt at considering a global history of silk in the pre-modern era. The book examines the role of silk production and use in various cultures and its relation to everyday and regulatory practices. It considers silk as a major force of cross cultural interaction through technological exchange and trade in finished and semi-finished goods. Silks mediated design and a taste for luxuries and were part of gifting practices in diplomatic and private contexts. Silk manufacturing also fostered the circulation of skilled craftsmen, connecting different centres and regions across continents and linking the countryside to urban production.
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PASOLD STUDIES IN TEXTILE HISTORY PUBLISHED JOINTLY WITH OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Margaret Spufford and Susan Mee, The Clothing of the Common Sort 1570-1700, published October 2017.
Information: Most histories of costume in early modern Britain concentrate on the clothing of the social elite. These are both more likely to have been documented, and more likely to have survived in museum collections. But it leaves out almost all of the clothes worn by almost all of the population. The Clothing of the Common Sort focuses on the clothing of children and young adults of the 'common sort' during the period 1570 to 1700 — the sons and daughters of 'ordinary' people going about their daily lives in towns and villages across England. The study employs a number of innovative sources not previously exploited for the purpose, including probate accounts and inventories. The volume examines the acquisition of clothing, from purchase of fabric, through production by tailors and 'women with a needle', to payment for ready-made items. In so doing, it uncovers evidence of the myriad tradesmen, craftsmen, artisans and 'women with a needle' who were involved in the production and dissemination of clothing and accessories in towns and villages across England in the late 16th and 17th centuries.
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Evelyn Welch, Editor, Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800, published February 2017.
Information: How did fashion work in Europe before modern media? Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why did men from Spain to Sweden suddenly decide to adopt wigs around 1660 only to drop them less than fifty years later? How did manufacturers and merchants encourage and then respond to changing demands for colourful printed patterns and new cuts and styles of tailoring in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? As importantly, why were others unsuccessful in terms of their cross-European adoption? This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated and promoted new textiles, novel products and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations that explain fashion as spreading from the court elite downwards, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions successful.
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Geoffrey Owen, The Rise and Fall of Great Companies: Courtaulds and the reshaping of the man-made fibres industry was published by Pasold Research Fund and Oxford University Press in September 2010.
It is the 17th volume in the series Pasold Studies in Textile History.
For an overview of the themes covered in The Rise and Fall of Great Companies, please read Geoffrey Owen's article "When bigger is not necessarily better" published in the Financial Times on the 23 August 2010 and the book reviews by Martin Vander Weyer on The Mail on Sunday, 24 October 2010 and by David Higgins in Business History, vol. 53/3 (2011).
The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850, eds. Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi (Pasold Fund and Oxford University Press, HB 2009 and PB 2011).
This multi-authored volume contains the latest research of specialists from four continents. It is available now from bookshops, Amazon and direct from Oxford University Press both in hardback and paperback.
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No 17 Companies, Crises and Global Competition: Courtaulds and the Reshaping of the Man-made Fibres IndustryBy GEOFFREY OWEN |
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No 16 The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850by GIORGIO RIELLO and PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI |
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No 15 A Foot in the Past: Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth CenturyBy GIORGIO RIELLO302pp. 2006 ISBN 01 19929225, £60 |
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No 14 The Fibre that Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International PerspectiveEdited by DOUGLAS A. FARNIE and DAVID JEREMY614pp. 2004 ISBN 0 19 925566 0 £75 |
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No 13 The European Linen Industry in Historical PerspectiveEdited by BRENDA COLLINS AND PHILIP OLLERENSHAW334pp. 2003 ISBN 0-19-925565-2, £55 |
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No 12 Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small Scale Industry in Britain c 1589-2000By STANLEY CHAPMAN328pp. 2002 ISBN 01 19 920237 0, £55 |
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No 11 Well Suited : A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850-1990By KATRINA HONEYMAN336pp. 2000. ISBN 01 19 920237 0, £45 |
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No 9 Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain, 1660-1800By BEVERLEY LEMIRE216 x 156 mm 244 pp. 1991 ISBN 0 19 921062 4, £30.00 $79.00 |
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No 8 Lancashire on the Scrapheap: The Cotton Industry, 1945-1970By JOHN SINGLETON216 x 156 mm 256 pp. 1991 ISBN 0 19 921061 6, £30.00 $95.00 |
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No 6 Technology and Enterprise. Isaac Holden and the mechanisation of wool combing in France, 1884-1914By KATRINA HONEYMAN and JORDAN GOODMAN |
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No 5 The East Anglian Linen Industry. Rural industry and local economy, 1500-1850By NESTA EVANS |
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No 4 Medieval English Clothmaking. An economic surveyBy A.R. BRIDBURY |
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No 3 The British Wool Textile Industry, 1770-1914Corrected reprint by D.T. JENKINS and K.G. PONTING |
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No 2 Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe. Essays in Memory of Professor E.M. Carus WilsonEdited by N.B. HARTE and K.G. PONTING |
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No.1 European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and OberkampfBy S. D. CHAPMAN and S. CHASSAGNE |
Earlier 'Pasold Studies in Textile History' were published in association with Heinemann Educational Books, and later in association with Scolar Press, an imprint of Gower Publishing Co. Ltd.
Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Surveyby A.R. BRIDBURY. 1982. |
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Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings of Textile Machinesby K. G. PONTING. 1979. (out of print) |
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The Industrialization of a Central European City: Brno and the Fine Woollen Industry in the 18th Centuryby H. FREUDENBERGER. 1977. |
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Ladybird Ladybird: A Story of Private Enterpriseby Eric W. Pasold. 1977. |
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Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Millsby K. H. ROGERS. 1976. |
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The West Riding Wool Textile Industry 1770-1835: A Study of Fixed Capital Formationby DAVID JENKINS. 1975. (out of print) |
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The West Riding Wool Textile Industry: A Catalogue of Business Records from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuryby PATRICIA HUDSON. 1975. |
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Employer and Employed: Ford, Ayrton & Co. Ltd. Silk Spinners, 1870-1970by E.R. & J.H.P. PAFFORD. 1974. |