Innovation and Industrial Espionage in Eighteenth-Century France: An Investigation of the Selling of Silks through Samples.
Although there is a considerable literature on the pre-eminence of French patterned silks in the fashion markets of eighteenth-century Europe, there is little consideration of the processes by which interest in these products was maintained season after season in the face of competition from an incr...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Design History Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 271 - 293 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
1999
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