Manchester University Press’s renowned Studies in Design and Material Culture series continues to develop the art history landscape with its latest publication, Threads of Globalization edited... READ MORE
Manchester University Press’s renowned Studies in Design and Material Culture series continues to develop the art history landscape with its latest publication, Threads of Globalization edited... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Above sea: Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai intervenes into global contemporary... READ MORE
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Abraham Moon and Sons had weathered a near endless series of challenges over the 150 years of its existence but one problem wouldn’t... READ MORE
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk How does a firm find its customers? How does it communicate with them? In the glory days of the British wool fabric industry during the mid 1800s, the mills of West Yorkshire... READ MORE
[wr_row][wr_column]By Regina Lee Blaszczyk There was a time when the British high street looked very different than it does today. In 1900, the clothing trade was dominated by tailors and dressmakers... READ MORE
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk Ever since North Sea traders connected London merchants to Continental European markets, wool has been an emblem of British identity. Whether considering Scottish tartans, the... READ MORE
By Regina Lee Blaszczyk In 1866, Leeds was the hub of the giant West Yorkshire cloth trade. Clothiers sold pieces of fabric, each fifty-one yards long, at the Coloured Cloth Hall, an assemblage of red... READ MORE
In her new book, Fashionability: Abraham Moon and the creation of British cloth for the global market, Professor Regina Lee Blaszczyk of the University of Leeds examines the Yorkshire tweed business... READ MORE