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Textile History Books
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,167 ratings — published 1994
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,633 ratings — published 2022
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,392 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,911 ratings — published 2018
A History of Hand Knitting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 324 ratings — published 1987
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 360 ratings — published 2019
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,033 ratings — published 2021
Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.66 — 79 ratings — published 2003
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published 2020
First Textiles: The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in Europe and the Mediterranean (Ancient Textiles)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 66 ratings — published 2003
When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 1997
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,107 ratings — published 2005
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,556 ratings — published 2025
Knitting Through Time: Stories of How We Learned to Knit (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.12 — 16 ratings — published
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 260 ratings — published
Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 627 ratings — published 2021
Silk: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 625 ratings — published
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,130 ratings — published 2023
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 721 ratings — published 2017
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 356 ratings — published 1999
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,842 ratings — published 2020
Goddess Women Cloth A Worldwide Tradition of Making and Using Ritual Textiles. (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2012
Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers (Fowler Museum Textile)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 12 ratings — published 2013
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,400 ratings — published 2019
Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (Ancient Textiles)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2017
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 522 ratings — published 1984
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 712 ratings — published 1988
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 657 ratings — published 2001
The Warp-Weighted Loom: Studies in History and Technology of an Ancient Implement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 1979
Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 88 ratings — published 1991
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,614 ratings — published 2006
The Resistance Knitting Club (Threads of Resistance #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,374 ratings — published
Indumentaria valenciana siglos XVIII-XIX: De dentro afuera, de arriba abajo (Valencia viva) (Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Art of Boro Sashiko: A Timeless Journey into Japanese Visible Mending, Mindful Stitching, and Sustainable Textile Art (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Asia Chic: The Influence of Japanese and Chinese Textiles on the Fashions of the Roaring Twenties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Beyond the Tanabata Bridge: Traditional Japanese Textiles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 1993
Silks for Thrones and Altars: Chinese Costumes and Textiles (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2003
Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Kimono, Vanishing Tradition: Japanese Textiles of the 20th Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 16 ratings — published 2001
Chinese Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,321 ratings — published 2025
The Weaver's Tapestry (Silk Road #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 76 ratings — published 2025
A Single Thread (Cobbled Court Quilts, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,563 ratings — published 2008
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 45 ratings — published 1848
Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 168 ratings — published 2014
Knitting Socks from Around the World: 25 Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 62 ratings — published 2011
“Make It Yourself”: Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (Gutenberg-e)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2008
“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.”
― Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
― Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times