Holker Album

Ariane Fennetaux is Associate Professor in British history at Université Paris Cité. Her research and publications focus on material culture with a particular emphasis on textiles and dress. Her book, The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives 1660-1900, co-authored with Barbara Burman, was published in 2019 by Yale University Press.John Styles is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He specialises in the history of material life, manufacturing and design. His books include The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, published by Yale University Press in 2007, and Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770, published by the London Foundling Museum in 2010.

• ESSAYSJohn Holker and the making of the Livre d’échantillons. By Ariane Fennetaux & John StylesThe Holker album and Lancashire cotton textiles. By John StylesJohn Holker, an entrepreneur at Rouen. By Serge ChassagneJohn Holker as inspector of manufactures. By Philippe MinardThe chemistry of colours circa 1750. By Liliane Hilaire-PérezJohn Holker, technical innovation and the hot cylinder press. By Philip A. SykasThe Holker album in a global context. By Giorgio RielloChintz, cambric, and a counterfeit silk handkerchief: printed textiles in the Holker album. By John StylesDeep blue, fiery red, and apricot yellow: colour, imperial markets and the global textile trade. By Beverly LemireAnd cotton became fashionable. By Denis BrunaThe English origin of jeans. By Pascale Gorguet BallesterosFACSIMILE OF THE HOLKER ALBUMAPPENDICESTranslation of the transcriptionTechnical analysisGlossaryBibliographyIndexList of illustrations