Notes
1 Private correspondence.
2 L. Taylor, The Study of Dress History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), p. 64.
3 J. Thirsk, ‘The Fantastical Folly of Fashion: The English Stocking Knitting Industry, 1500–1700’, in Textile History and Economic History: Essays in Honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann, ed. N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1973), p. 50.
4 N. Harte, ‘Foreword’, Textile History, 22, no. 2 (1991), p. 150.
5 L. Monnas, ‘Opus Anglicanum and Renaissance Velvet: The Whalley Abbey Vestment’, Textile History, 25, no. 1 (1994), pp. 3–28; A. Sheng, ‘The Origins of Chinese Tapestry Weave: A New Hypothesis Based on Recent Studies of Archaeological Finds and Chu Material Culture’, Textile History, 26, no. 1 (1995), pp. 53–74.
6 C. Gosden, ‘What Do Objects Want?’, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 12, no. 3 (2005), p. 196.
7 L. Auslander, ‘Beyond Words’, American Historical Review, 110, no. 4 (2005), p. 1017.
8 D. Miller, Stuff (Cambridge: Polity, 2010), pp. 1–2.
9 C. Willmott, ‘From Stroud to Strouds: The Hidden History of a British Fur Trade Textile’, Textile History, 36, no. 2 (2005), pp. 196–234.
10 C. Silverstein-Willmott, ‘An Ojibway Artifact Unraveled: The Case of the Bag with the Snake Skin Strap’, Textile History, 34, no. 1 (2003), pp. 74–81.
11 S. Gray, ‘Reinterpreting a Textile Tradition: David McDiarmid’s Ecstatic and Utopian Klub Kwilt’, Textile History, 38, no. 2 (2007), pp. 202–04.
Additional information
Beverly Lemire is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published extensively in the field of early modern consumer practice, fashion history, early global trade, gender and material culture, with studies focused on Britain, Europe and comparative global locales. Beverly was past co-editor, with Lesley Miller, of Textile History 2002–2007 when they led the re-launch of this journal. Selected books include: Fashion’s Favourite: The Cotton Trade and the Consumer in Britain, 1660–1800 (1991); Dress, Culture and Commerce: The English Clothing Trade before the Factory, 1660–1800 (1997); The Business of Everyday Life: Gender, Practice and Social Politics in England, c. 1600–1900 (2005; 2012); Cotton (2011). Her most recent book is titled Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).