Textiles


Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
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
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
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 Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
Texts From Dog by October JonesAre You Being Brainwashed? by Kent HovindThe Context of English Literature 1900 - 1930 by Michael   BellRenaissance Paratexts by Helen SmithJohn Lydgate's Fall of Princes by Nigel Mortimer
¡Nice Shootin 'Text'!
105 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 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

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
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
56 books — 37 voters

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

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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