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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,044 ratings — published 1994
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,820 ratings — published 2018
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,186 ratings — published 2020
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,355 ratings — published 2019
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,562 ratings — published 2022
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.23 — 995 ratings — published 2021
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.11 — 516 ratings — published 1984
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
by (shelved 20 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.13 — 87 ratings — published 1993
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,206 ratings — published 2019
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.14 — 739 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 4.06 — 425 ratings — published
African Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.35 — 62 ratings — published 2003
Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 38 ratings — published 2012
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 1999
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 351 ratings — published 2019
Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.23 — 506 ratings — published 2015
Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.43 — 971 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Manipulating Fabric (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.38 — 832 ratings — published 1996
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.64 — 66 ratings — published 2003
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.16 — 355 ratings — published 1999
Anni Albers On Weaving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.63 — 150 ratings — published 1965
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
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,298 ratings — published 2025
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.66 — 624 ratings — published 2021
Indian Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.39 — 36 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.28 — 89 ratings — published 2007
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 3.91 — 324 ratings — published 1987
Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,263 ratings — published 2023
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,725 ratings — published 2020
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.01 — 645 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
Mastering Weave Structures: Transforming Ideas into Great Cloth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.62 — 82 ratings — published 2004
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.65 — 138 ratings — published 2006
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 128 ratings — published
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,605 ratings — published 2016
Stitch, Fabric & Thread: An Inspirational Guide for Creative Stitchers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.24 — 128 ratings — published
Layer, Paint and Stitch: Create textile art using freehand machine embroidery and hand stitching (Textile Artist)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.22 — 36 ratings — published 2015
Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.27 — 86 ratings — published 2011
Mark Making In Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 29 ratings — published 2013
Cloth and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1989
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 (Medieval Clothing And Textiles)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 2005
Textiles in America, 1650-1870 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 1984
A Handweaver's Pattern Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.64 — 85 ratings — published 1944
Hot Textiles Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.13 — 23 ratings — published 2007
Fragmentation and Repair: For Mixed-Media And Textile Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.54 — 76 ratings — published 2021
Textilepedia: The Complete Fabric Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.62 — 236 ratings — published 2020
The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850 (Pasold Studies in Textile History)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Poetic Cloth: Creating Meaning in Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.41 — 44 ratings — published 2019
“. . . fabric was my first consistent contact. . . my first language, my mother tongue—tactile, animate, and entire.”
― Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
― Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Of course, being perishable, the textiles themselves are not easy to learn about -- just like most of the rest of women's products (such as food and the recipes for preparing it). Therefore, to recover the reality of women's history, we must develop excellent techniques ... using not just the obvious data but learning to ferret out every helpful detail. Practical experiments like reweaving some of the surviving ancient cloths are a case in point. Among the thousands of archaeologists who have written about pottery or architecture, how many have actually tried to to make a pot or build a building? Precious few; but with so much data available for study in these fields, scholars felt flooded with information already, and such radical steps hardly seemed necessary. Our case is different; we must use every discoverable clue.”
― 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
