Historian of material culture, textiles, manufacturing, design. Professor Emeritus @UniofHerts. Senior Research Fellow @V_and_A. Hill walker.
London, England
Joined June 2020
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Just published, ‘Transformations in Textiles, 1400-1760’, my (critical) homage to Jan De Vries’s ‘Industrious Revolution’. Available as an open access e-book chapter manchesterhive.com/display/9…
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Just published, my 'Printed Calicoes between India and Europe: Lost in Translation?' in Émilie Hammen (ed.), The Crafts of Fashion vol. 2: Geographies (Éditions B42). 'India was a model and a source of inspiration, but India was not necessarily the tutor.'
New Book! The Holker Album: Textile Samples and Industrial Espionage in the 18th Century, edited by @ArianeFennetaux and myself. amazon.co.uk/Album-Holker-Ec…
My chapter ‘Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution. Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1600-1780’ now published online books.fupress.com/chapter/re…
Cotton velvets, knitted cotton stockings, printed cottons, muslins: how fashion-driven product innovations in semi-luxury textiles propelled the mechanisation of cotton spinning in later-eighteenth century Britain.
My 2021 Aalto University, Finland, paper 'Everyday Fashion in Early-Modern Europe: Transformations in Textiles, 1500-1750' is now available to download at spinning-wheel.org/2021/09/e…
My 2021 Prato conference paper, ‘Re-fashioning Industrial Revolution: Fibres, fashion and technical innovation in British cotton textiles, 1630-1780’, is now available to download at spinning-wheel.org/2021/08/r…
Updated version of my 2021 Utrecht conference paper, ‘Fibres, Yarns and Fabrics: Cotton Textiles in Britain and the Dutch Republic before Mechanisation, 1600-1760’ is now available to download at spinning-wheel.org/2021/04/f…
My article 'The Rise and Fall of the Spinning Jenny: Domestic Mechanisation in Eighteenth-Century Cotton Spinning’ has now been published online in Textile History. It's available to read or download on open access at: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…