Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Museums and the knowledge economy : developing competitive advantage for the future -- Weaving a social structure : achieving specialist distinction -- Collaborative leadership, provenance and the power of place -- Enterprise and social value :...

Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Clio Padovani -- The challenges of a socially sustainable textiles and fashion industry -- Plustex: An evidence-based approach -- Chapter structure -- Notes -- 1 Museums and the knowledge economy:...

Since the 1990s, the clothing and textile (C&T)-industry has been tremendously affected by changes in technology, trade costs, and the institutional environment. This paper studies the restructuring of C&T-trade from the perspective of Europe's two most prominent C&T-goods producing...

Introduction : luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) : a conceptual investigation / Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson -- Consumption of luxury textiles. 'In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest' : the possession and...