Pasold Resource Page
This page is an open access resource for researchers in textile, dress and fashion history.
We welcome suggestions of material that might feature on the Research Resources page, bearing in mind the constraints imposed by copyright. All items appearing on the site would need to have copyright assigned to the Fund for the purpose of electronic publication. Please address suggestions to the Pasold Research Fund Director, Dr Bethan Bide at pasold@leeds.ac.uk
PASOLD RESOURCES
These downloads are available as PDF files. They are quite large and so please be patient when you are downloading.
1. Gillian Holman, Made in East Anglia: A History of the Region’s Textile & Menswear Industries (Pasold Resource no. 1, 2015). (PDF 8MB).
2. Lesley Ellis Miller, Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century French Silk Designers (Pasold Resource no. 2, 2016). (PDF 6MB).
PASOLD MONOGRAPHS
These downloads are available as PDF files. They are quite large and so please be patient when you are downloading.
N.B. Harte, The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England (No. 10, 1997). (PDF 231MB)
D.T. Jenkins and K.G. Ponting, The British Wool Textile Industry, 1770-1914 (No. 3, 1986). (PDF 297MB)
S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne, European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf (No. 1, 1981). (PDF 145MB).
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