Textiles


Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
African Textiles
Textiles: The Art of Mankind
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottMrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy WinnCall the Darkness Light by Nancy ZaroulisUnravelling by Elizabeth GraverLyddie by Katherine Paterson
Lowell Mills
56 books — 8 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLyddie by Katherine PatersonThe Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate AlcottSo Far From Home by Barry DenenbergThe Blue Door by Ann Rinaldi
Textile Mill Fiction
106 books — 33 voters

Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonHis Dark Enchantress by Victoria ChathamCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel FarnumFighting for Bread and Roses by Lynn A. Coleman
Bread and Roses
13 books — 3 voters
Texts From Dog by October JonesAre You Being Brainwashed? by Kent HovindThe Context of English Literature 1900 - 1930 by Michael   BellRenaissance Paratexts by Helen SmithJohn Lydgate's Fall of Princes by Nigel Mortimer
¡Nice Shootin 'Text'!
105 books — 5 voters

I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people.
Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez

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. ...more
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

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