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Textile History Books
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,820 ratings — published 2020
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 — 2,924 ratings — published 1994
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,700 ratings — published 2018
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 953 ratings — published 2021
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,421 ratings — published 2022
A History of Hand Knitting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 322 ratings — published 1987
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 342 ratings — published 2019
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,051 ratings — published 2023
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
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,287 ratings — published 2019
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 702 ratings — published 1988
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 64 ratings — published 2003
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 629 ratings — published 2001
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,082 ratings — published 2005
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 268 ratings — published
Silk: A World History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 569 ratings — published
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 — 706 ratings — published 2017
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 353 ratings — published 1999
Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 229 ratings — published 2007
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,556 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
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 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 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
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 — 503 ratings — published 1984
When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1997
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 — 87 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 — 3,589 ratings — published 2006
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 769 ratings — published 2025
The Weaver's Tapestry: Silk Road Series Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 30 ratings — published
A Single Thread (Cobbled Court Quilts, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,139 ratings — published 2008
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 41 ratings — published 1848
Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 164 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 3.98 — 59 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
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 644 ratings — published 2024
Knitting Through Time: Stories of How We Learned to Knit (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.31 — 13 ratings — published
The Sheep's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 189 ratings — published 2022
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 174 ratings — published
Cloth and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1989
The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 611 ratings — published 2021
The Weight of Cloth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 102 ratings — published
Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.54 — 91 ratings — published 2010
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 803 ratings — published 2022
The Hidden Thread (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,617 ratings — published 2017
“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
