TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Victoria
TI  - Fabric: the hidden history of the material world 
SN  - 1639361634
AV  - NK8806 .F565 2022
U1  - 677/.09 23/eng/20220602
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pegasus Books
KW  - Textile fabrics
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-494) and index; Some words before we start -- Barkcloth -- Tapa -- Cotton -- Wool -- Tweed -- Pashmina -- Sackcloth -- Linen -- Silk -- Imagined fabrics -- Patchwork
N2  - "In Fabric...author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents -and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery."--publisher's website
ER  -