Album Holker: échantillons textiles et espionnage industriel au XVIIIe siècle = The Holker Album : textile samples and industrial espionage in the 18th century

John Holker (1719-1786), English Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world's first industrial espionage agents

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Main Authors: Fennetaux, Ariane 1974- (Author, Editor), Styles, John (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:French
English
Published: Paris Musée des Arts décoratifs [2022]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:John Holker (1719-1786), English Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world's first industrial espionage agents
"Born out of Franco-British rivalry, the Holker album is a volume containing 115 textile swatches collected during a secret mission to Britain in 1751 by the Lancashire textile manufacturer turned French spy, John Holker. Now held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, this unique and fragile manuscript is best known for including some of the oldest surviving examples of jean fabric. Reproduced here for the first time in facsimile and transcription, it is accompanied by essays written by leading specialists in economic history, textile techniques, the global cotton trade, technology transfer, and fashion".
Item Description:Enthält das Faksimile des Holker Albums, die Transkription des handschriftlichen französischen Texts aus dem Holker Album in gedrucktem französischen Text, eine Übersetzung ins Englische sowie wissenschaftliche Essays (französisch und englisch)
Physical Description:295 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Karte 38 x 26 cm
ISBN:2916914870
9782916914879

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