Recherches sur le commerce, la fabrication et l'usage des étoffes de soie, d'or et d'argent, et autres tissues précieux en Occident, principalement en France, pendant le Moyen Age

A comprehensive historical survey & compilation of references concerning all aspects of luxury silk textile production, trade & consumption, especially in France, Europe, & the Islamic & Byzantine middle east, during the middle ages. Due to its scholarship & range of references it is unsurpassed & is still cited, being considered the first scholarly history of decorative fine textiles, & one of the rarest works on the subject.