Michael Zell and Heather Falvey, eds, Walter Morrell's 'Manufacture for the New Draperie' (1616)

摘要

Walter Morrell was a man with a dream. Or rather a business project to provide training to the poor, thereby giving them access to meaningful, paid work producing the increasingly fashionable 'new draperies' that would boost the economy of seventeenth-century Hertfordshire and the country as a whole. While Walter saw himself as 'a true and faithful subject unto his prince and country', sadly, the great and the good of Jacobean Hertfordshire did not see things in the same way, and ultimately he failed to attract sufficient long-term investors in his project. As such, this book presents a fascinating case study that offers something to early modern textile historians, as well as those with interests in social and business history.