Textiles


Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
African Textiles
Textiles: The Art of Mankind
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara  CollinsThreadneedle by Cari ThomasThe Embroidered Book by Kate HeartfieldStories That Bind Us by Susie FinkbeinerCities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
Stitched Covers
29 books — 5 voters
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoCorduroy by Don FreemanA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleNational Velvet by Enid BagnoldTipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Fabrics
620 books — 53 voters

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
55 books — 7 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
105 books — 32 voters


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

Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago. ...more
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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