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Textiles Books
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,913 ratings — published 1994
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,795 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,688 ratings — published 2018
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,278 ratings — published 2019
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,402 ratings — published 2022
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.23 — 949 ratings — published 2021
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
by (shelved 20 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.13 — 87 ratings — published 1993
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.12 — 504 ratings — published 1984
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,106 ratings — published 2019
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.13 — 706 ratings — published 2019
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 413 ratings — published
African Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.34 — 59 ratings — published 2003
Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 37 ratings — published 2012
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.09 — 341 ratings — published 2019
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 1999
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.23 — 500 ratings — published 2015
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.16 — 353 ratings — published 1999
Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.43 — 962 ratings — published 2009
Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.61 — 87 ratings — published 1991
Embroidered Textiles: A World Guide to Traditional Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.29 — 72 ratings — published 1990
The Art of Manipulating Fabric (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.37 — 831 ratings — published 1996
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.69 — 64 ratings — published 2003
Anni Albers On Weaving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.63 — 147 ratings — published 1965
Indian Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.39 — 36 ratings — published 2008
Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.53 — 94 ratings — published 1991
A History of Hand Knitting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.90 — 322 ratings — published 1987
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.10 — 244 ratings — published
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.67 — 608 ratings — published 2021
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,648 ratings — published 2016
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.02 — 626 ratings — published 2001
Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.34 — 245 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.28 — 89 ratings — published 2007
Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,111 ratings — published 2023
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.06 — 123 ratings — published
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,539 ratings — published 2020
Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.28 — 85 ratings — published 2011
Mark Making In Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 29 ratings — published 2013
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 (Medieval Clothing And Textiles)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 2005
Mastering Weave Structures: Transforming Ideas into Great Cloth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.62 — 82 ratings — published 2004
A Handweaver's Pattern Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.63 — 84 ratings — published 1944
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.65 — 138 ratings — published 2006
Hot Textiles Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 2007
The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,950 ratings — published 2019
Layer, Paint and Stitch: Create textile art using freehand machine embroidery and hand stitching (Textile Artist)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.22 — 36 ratings — published 2015
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.44 — 158 ratings — published 2014
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published 2013
Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.28 — 36 ratings — published 2007
Cloth and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1989
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,082 ratings — published 2005
“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
“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.”
― 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











