The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
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2.83
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2. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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3.50
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3. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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5. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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6. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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7. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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8. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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9. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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10. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By: Richard Thompson Ford
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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11. Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
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3.96
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12. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
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4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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13. Domestic Revolution
By: Ruth Goodman
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
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4.05
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15. This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
By: Esther Rutter
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
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3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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18. Concerning the Future of Souls
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4.05
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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19. Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes
By: Shahidha Bari
3.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
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3.59
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
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21. Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science
By: Erin Zimmerman
4.45
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