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Copy of the Goods of Montpellier
Unrecorded artist1809
- Attribution
- France
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 1650 swatches
- Physical dimensions
- Average length of swatches: H.: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Average width of swatches: W.: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.); Measurement of volume: 48.9 × 20 × 5.7 cm (19 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.); 51.3 × 21.6 × 8.5 cm (20 1/8 × 8 5/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
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This book illustrates the huge variety of intricate patterns printed in vivid colors on cotton textiles for fashion during the early 19th century. The book comes from Montpellier, a town on the southern coast of France that is not known today as a center of textile printing. Thus these samples indicate how much more widespread the textile industry was in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This book contains more than 1,600 small samples.
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