Textile History, Volume 52, Issue 1-2 (2021)

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Textile History, Volume 52, Issue 1-2 (2021)

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Editorial Note

Editorial
Editorial Note
Marina Moskowitz & Vivienne Richmond
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Weaving Connections: Sicilian Silk in the Medieval Mediterranean
Timothy Smit
Pages: 5-22
Published online: 31 Mar 2022
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Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-Makers, Body-Makers and the Changing Textile Marketplace of Seventeenth-Century London
Sarah A. Bendall
Pages: 23-55
Published online: 23 Jun 2021
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Behind the Seams: Global Circulations in a Group of Japanese-Inspired Cotton Nightgowns c. 1700
Ariane Fennetaux
Pages: 56-77
Published online: 23 Aug 2021
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Check Shirts, Flannel Jackets, Canvas Trousers: The Trade in Slops from Eighteenth-Century Liverpool
Miles Lambert
Pages: 78-100
Published online: 08 Sep 2021
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Production of Uniform Cloth and Military Uniforms in Russia (1698–1762)
Victoria Ivleva
Pages: 101-121
Published online: 28 Mar 2022
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Why Early Modern English Clothiers Started Using Spanish Wool
Hugh Chevis
Pages: 122-143
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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The Stocking Knitting Industry of Later Sixteenth-Century Norwich
Lesley O’Connell Edwards
Pages: 144-164
Published online: 31 Aug 2021
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Recognising the Co-dependence of Machine and Hand in the Scottish Knitwear Industry
Lynn Abrams & Lin Gardner
Pages: 165-189
Published online: 15 Mar 2022
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Exhibition Reviews

Exhibition
‘Artful Nature: Fashion and Theatricality 1770–1830’, Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, USA, 6 February–13 March 2020
Zara Kesterton
Pages: 191-195
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Exhibition
‘Collecting Comme’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 31 October 2019–15 March 2020 and 27 June–9 July 2020
Caroleen Molenaar
Pages: 195-199
Published online: 10 Aug 2021
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Digital Media Reviews

Book Review
‘Zoom Into This Embroidered Panel for a Cabinet Door’
Online exhibition, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on Google Arts & Culture,
Holly Fletcher
Pages: 200-203
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Articles of Interest, hosted by Avery Trufelman,
Handcut Radio, hosted by Aleks Cvetkovic,
Cyana Madsen
Pages: 203-205
Published online: 20 May 2022
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London’s Fashion Alphabet
Online exhibition, Museum of London, London, UK,
Rachel Neal
Pages: 205-209
Published online: 20 May 2022
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‘Erica Wilson: A Life in Stitches’
Online exhibition, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Delaware, USA,
Isabella Rosner
Pages: 209-212
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Pika Ghosh, Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2020. 284 pp., 103 col. illus. $65. isbn: 9780295746999
Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Pages: 213-214
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Steven Toms, Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780–2000
Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2020. xiv + 334 pp., 2 b/w + 32 line illus. £19.99. isbn: 9781783275090 (PB), 9781787448483 (ePDF)
Pat Hudson
Pages: 214-216
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Tanya Heinrich, ed., Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin and University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2019. 304 pp., 200 col. illus. $45.00. isbn: 9780226664835
Janis Jefferies
Pages: 216-217
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Concha Herrero Carretero, Álvaro Molina and Jesusa Vega, La Decoración ideada por François Grognard para los apartamentos de la Duquesa de Alba en el Palacio de Buenavista
La Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 2020. iv + 470 pp., 55 illus. €30. isbn: 9788490962428
Lesley Ellis Miller
Pages: 217-219
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Megan Cifarelli, ed., Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity
Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2019. vii + 248 pp., £38.00. isbn: 9781789252545
Louise Quillien
Pages: 219-220
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Serena Dyer and Chloe Wigston Smith, eds, Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney, 2020. 328 pp., 8 col. pls, 74 b/w illus. £91.80 (HB), £73.44 eBook (ePub/MOBI/PDF). isbn: 9781501349614
Clare Rose
Pages: 220-221
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Book Review
Bracha Yaniv, Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles: From Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, in association with Liverpool University Press, London and Liverpool, 2019. xiii + 472 pp., 179 illus. £65. isbn: 9781906764180
Nikolaos Vryzidis
Pages: 222-223
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Burgu Dogramaci, ed., Textile Modernism
Böhlau Publishing, Cologne, Germany, 2019. 459 pp., 216 colour illus. £26.00. isbn: 9783412514594
Ann Coxon
Pages: 223-225
Published online: 20 May 2022
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K. L. H. Wells, Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019. 280 pp., 59 colour and 45 b/w illus. Cloth $65.00. isbn: 9780300232592
Janis Jefferies
Pages: 225-226
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Lorinda Cramer, Needlework & Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia
Bloomsbury Visual, London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi and Sydney, 2020. 264 + x pp., 58 illus. $114. isbn: 9781350069626
Marta Kargól
Pages: 226-227
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Kate Stephenson, A Cultural History of School Uniform
University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2021. 232 pp., 21 b/w illus. £75 (HB). isbn: 9781905816538. £75 (eBook). isbn: 9781905816545
Clare Rose
Pages: 228-229
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Danielle C. Skeehan, The Fabric of Empire: Material and Literary Cultures of the Global Atlantic, 1650–1850
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2020. 184 pp., 18 illust. $54.95. isbn: 9781421439686
Stacey Sloboda
Pages: 229-230
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Claire Wilcox, Patch Work — A Life Amongst Clothes
Bloomsbury Press, 2021. 270 pp., 30 b/w illus. £9.99 (PB). isbn: 9781526614414. £7.99 (eBook). isbn: 9781526614384
Lou Taylor
Pages: 230-232
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Brenda M. King, The Wardle Family and its Circle: Textile Production in the Arts and Crafts Era
Boydell Press, 2019. 218 pp., 14 colour pls, 22 b/w illus. $45. isbn: 9781783273959
Zoë Thomas
Pages: 232-233
Published online: 20 May 2022
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Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820
University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2021. xvii + 408 pp., 186 illus. $50. isbn: 9780268108052
Linda K. Williams
Pages: 233-235
Published online: 20 May 2022
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