Textile History

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    • How Textiles Made the World
    • By: Virginia I. Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....

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    • How Fabric Changed History
    • By: Kassia St. Clair
    • Narrated by: Helen Johns
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking - and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as "merely women's work" - The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Adventures in American Wool
    • By: Clara Parkes
    • Narrated by: Clara Parkes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 872 ratings
    • A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way....

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 647 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
    • By: Clare Hunter
    • Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story....

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    • A People's History of Clothing
    • By: Sofi Thanhauser
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways....

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    • A Book of Hours
    • By: Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Entertaining, unexpected, and charming, All the Time in the World digs up the forgotten treasures of the past and inspires a passion for good living in the present....

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    • Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
    • By: Jane Cooper
    • Narrated by: Jane Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray, and the wool-obsessed woman who moved to one of Scotland’s wildest islands to save them....

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    • By: Sue Lange
    • Narrated by: Katina Kalin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Not an easy listen. Intellectual. Literary. If you're looking for something vapid, move on. This is a humorous story of insanity in the high-energy high-fashion world of the future....

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    • A Cultural History
    • By: Zahra Hankir
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,345 ratings
    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

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    • How Japan Saved American Style
    • By: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years....

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    • A Philosophy of Clothes
    • By: Shahidha Bari
    • Narrated by: Shahidha Bari
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....

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    • Unraveling the Rich Tapestry of Societies Stitched in Time
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Embark on a captivating journey through the threads of time with "Weaving Through History," the enthralling eBook that entwines the rich tapestry ...

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    • Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America....

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    • How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
    • By: Syl Tang
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • isrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness....

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    • A World History
    • By: Aarathi Prasad
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.

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