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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,188 ratings — published 1994
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,921 ratings — published 2018
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,421 ratings — published 2020
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,641 ratings — published 2022
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,412 ratings — published 2019
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,041 ratings — published 2021
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.11 — 523 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 17 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,275 ratings — published 2019
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.15 — 758 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 — 433 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 14 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 38 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Manipulating Fabric (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.37 — 834 ratings — published 1996
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,588 ratings — published 2025
World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 1999
World Textiles: A Concise History (World of Art)
by (shelved 12 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.64 — 66 ratings — published 2003
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.08 — 365 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 — 974 ratings — published 2009
The Mummies of Ürümchi (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.16 — 357 ratings — published 1999
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.66 — 627 ratings — published 2021
Anni Albers On Weaving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.62 — 153 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 — 88 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
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 4.29 — 90 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 3.86 — 5,379 ratings — published 2023
A Short History of the World According to Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,867 ratings — published 2020
Cloth and Human Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.97 — 31 ratings — published 1989
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 — 659 ratings — published 2001
Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.34 — 251 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 4.64 — 138 ratings — published 2006
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 130 ratings — published
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,352 ratings — published 2016
Stitch, Fabric & Thread: An Inspirational Guide for Creative Stitchers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.25 — 129 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 4.24 — 37 ratings — published 2015
Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.28 — 86 ratings — published 2011
Mark Making In Textile Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.07 — 29 ratings — published 2013
The Textile Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.42 — 31 ratings — published 2012
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 — 78 ratings — published 2021
Textilepedia: The Complete Fabric Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as textiles)
avg rating 4.61 — 247 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
“When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.”
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“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
