Here are just some of the books, exhibitions, libraries, and websites that helped my research:
Books
Cunnington, Cecil Willett. Handbook of English Costume in the Eighteenth Century. London: Faber & Faber, 1964.
Gwynn, Robin D. The Huguenots of London. Brighton: Alpha Press, 1998.
Hay, Douglas, and Nicholas Rogers. Eighteenth-Century English Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Plummer, Alfred. The London Weavers’ Company 1600–1970. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1972.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Rothstein, Natalie. Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century. London: Bullfinch Press, 1990. © Victoria & Albert Museum.
Rothstein, Natalie. The English Silk Industry 1700–1825. Unpublished manuscript in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Vickery, Amanda. Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Warner, Sir Frank. The Silk Industry of the United Kingdom. London: Drane’s, undated.
Exhibitions, libraries, and websites
Denis Severs’s House at 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields. www.dennissevershouse.co.uk.
The Fashion Museum, Bath. www.fashionmuseum.co.uk.
The Georgians exhibitions at Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace gallery.
Georgians Revealed exhibition at the British Library (London, 2013) and the accompanying book of the same name.
The Huguenot Society and Library at Gower Street. www.huguenotsociety.org.uk.
John Roque’s Map of London, 1746. www.locatinglondon.org.
The National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1913. www.oldbaileyonline.org.
Spitalfields Life daily blogs by “The Gentle Author.” www.spitalfieldslife.com.
The Worshipful Company of Weavers. www.weavers.org.uk.