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
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
5,000 Years of Textiles (Five Thousand Years of Textiles)
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
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 Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams BiancoCorduroy by Don FreemanA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleNational Velvet by Enid BagnoldTipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Fabrics
620 books — 53 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
Jamestown by Joyce CrawfordBread and Roses, Too by Katherine PatersonHoliday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Zoë FrançoisCity in Amber by Jay AtkinsonThe Cry of the Street by Mabel Farnum
Bread and Roses
14 books — 5 voters

The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara  CollinsThreadneedle by Cari ThomasThe Embroidered Book by Kate HeartfieldStories That Bind Us by Susie FinkbeinerCities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
Stitched Covers
29 books — 5 voters
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
55 books — 7 voters

Owen    Jones
When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.
Owen Jones

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

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