Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765
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Claude Passavant
Cloth exports
Cloth making
Cloth samples
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Early modern Exeter
Eighteenth century
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Exeter cloth trade
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Trade
Woollen cloth
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- ISBN 9780901853639
- Weight: 984g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Devon & Cornwall Record Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History Society
A richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.
This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.
TODD GRAY MBE is Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and the author or editor of a number of volumes on Exeter and Devon including William Birchynshaw's Map of Exeter, 1743 and The Chronicle of Exeter, 1205-1722.
