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.
- ISBN10 0901853631
- ISBN13 9780901853639
- Publish Date 19 February 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Devon & Cornwall Record Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English