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
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
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
31 books — 5 voters
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane AuchTriangle by David von DrehleUprising by Margaret Peterson HaddixHear My Sorrow by Deborah HopkinsonA Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
57 books — 38 voters

The Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. ColemanBread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonBread and Roses by Bruce Watson
Bread and Roses
12 books — 2 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
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

. . . fabric was my first consistent contact. . . my first language, my mother tongue—tactile, animate, and entire.
Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people.
Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez

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