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# The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

**Brand:** virginia postrel
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- **What is this?** The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by virginia postrel
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Fascinating
  

*by A***C on Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2024*

Everyone I've lent this to has loved it, even if they have no particular interest in textiles, because it touches on so many things - history, chemistry, finance, even computer science - and it's written in a really engaging way.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An antidote to textile Amnesia
  

*by B***T on Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2020*

This was not the book I expected, but I loved it all the same. I had wondered how it was that textiles evolved--how we went from creatures covering--and adorning--our bodies with animal skins to beings who wove our garments from growing things.Instead, I was treated to a carefully-constructed argument, meticulously researched across human history and with references to a great variety of cultures, about how our ancestors--and even now our peers--attempts to improve those fabrics that adorn us influenced other technologies and so advanced civilization.Postrel starts with the various components of converting plant fiber into human clothing: carding and spinning, weaving, and dyeing, and then finally to commerce and innovation. The stuff can get technical at times--during the writing, she set up a loom in her office so as to experience the process of weaving--but it all serves her argument.It was a process of millennia to improve from the time-consuming process of the first woven garments to the abundance of clothing cluttering our closets today. "We suffer," Postrel observes in her Afterword, "textile amnesia because we enjoy textile abundance."Indeed.When I was moving last month from an apartment to a house and sorting through my closet, taking the unneeded garments to Goodwill where I saw a superabundance of donations. And that just on one day. At one location. In one city.In this the first book to arrive at my new house, I reflected back on what I saw and wondered how many hours of labor it would have taken to craft those garments at different stages in human history.Textile technology has evolved since humans first realized they could spin fibers from growing things into clothing. In this book, Virginia Postrel tells that story. Well worth your time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent Book
  

*by M***C on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2024*

The history of textiles is the history of the world.  A most interesting book.

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