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 Perfect Red
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
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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