Textile History


Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
A History of Hand Knitting
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
First Textiles: The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean (Ancient Textiles)
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles
A Perfect Red
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Knitting Through Time: Stories of How We Learned to Knit
Wildchilds by Eugenia MelianHorn-Horn by A.D.T. McLellanEccentric Glamour by Simon DoonanEveryday Fashion in Found Photographs by Lisa HodgkinsA History of Hand Knitting by Richard Rutt
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But what, I ask, was life really like? What hard evidence do we have for what we might want to know about women's lives? No evidence means no real knowledge. ...more
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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