Textile History

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    • The Hidden History of the Material World
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 15 ratings
    • Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and completing the trilogy of books which began with her first bestseller Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from...

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    • How Textiles Made the World
    • By: Virginia Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • “A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth” (The New York Times)...

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    • Как прялка, веретено и ткацкий станок помогли построить цивилизацию [The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World]
    • By: Вирджиния Пострел
    • Narrated by: Александра Максимова
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-26
    • Language: Russian
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    • О чем История человечества—это история текстиля, ровесника самой цивилизации. С тех пор как была спрядена первая нить, наша неутолимая потребность в тканях двигала вперед технологию, экономику, политику и культуру.

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