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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 4.30 — 3,321 ratings — published 1994
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,726 ratings — published 2022
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,675 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,002 ratings — published 2018
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,123 ratings — published 2005
A History of Hand Knitting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 328 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 — 373 ratings — published 2019
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,082 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 3.65 — 65 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
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,789 ratings — published 2025
Knitting Through Time: Stories of How We Learned to Knit (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.24 — 17 ratings — published
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 303 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 — 632 ratings — published 2021
Silk: A World History ― A History of Silk Across Continents and Millennia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.62 — 663 ratings — published
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,050 ratings — published 2021
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,172 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 — 725 ratings — published 2017
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 360 ratings — published 1999
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2013
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,016 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 — 2,466 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 4.10 — 536 ratings — published 1984
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as textile-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 718 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 — 662 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 4.62 — 89 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 — 3,634 ratings — published 2006
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 40 ratings — published
Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published 2013
The Resistance Knitting Club (Threads of Resistance #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,405 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 5.00 — 1 rating — 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 4.43 — 7 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 4.41 — 1,521 ratings — published 2025
The Weaver's Tapestry (Silk Road #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 95 ratings — published 2025
A Single Thread (Cobbled Court Quilts, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as textile-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,761 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