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 207 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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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 643 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 88 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 17 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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    • 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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    • 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 Reckoning with Work and Home
    • By: Megan K. Stack
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers....

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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 2,346 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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    • 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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    • Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
    • By: Alicia Drake
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry....

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