# Copy of the Goods of Montpellier

- By: France
- Date: 1810
- Medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed and copperplate printed; total of swatches: 2390
- Classification: Book
- Dimensions: Average length of swatches: H.: 3.9 cm (1 1/2 in.); Average width of swatches: W.: 2.5 cm (1 in.); Measurement of volume: 49.2 × 19.7 × 4.5 cm (19 3/8 × 7 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.); 51.3 × 21.6 × 7.8 cm (20 1/8 × 8 5/8 × 3 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6623)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d2c6b76f-3dc7-4f04-afff-7f4045d14fc3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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 2,300 small samples.

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