Textile History


The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
A History of Hand Knitting
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
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)
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
Wildchilds by Eugenia MelianHorn-Horn by A.D.T. McLellanEccentric Glamour by Simon DoonanA History of Hand Knitting by Richard RuttA Dress for Diana by David Emanuel
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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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