Adriana’s Reviews > The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World > Status Update

“We blasé moderns may denigrate portraits of women holding distaffs or working wheels as mere symbols of domesticity and subordination. For our ancestors, however, they reflected a fundamental fact of life: without this constant labor, there could be no cloth.”

Women’s work 💪😤 don’t sleep on the ladies they are so important. Our reduction of ancient women is just another tactic of the patriarchy!!