Fabric – and our hunger for it – as the mother of invention, the driver behind technology, agriculture, trade, politics, culture… it funded the Italian Renaissance and the Mughal empire. History, archaeology, anthropology, economics inform this splendid and illuminating account.
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
(author)
£22.99
Edition:Hardback978154161760512/11/2020
Categories: 11. Spring Books 2021: Art, Photography & Decorative Arts, Decorative Arts, History, Photography & Fashion, Spring Books 2021
Tags: Ancient history, Byzantine Empire, European history, Fashion and beauty industries, Fashion and textile design, General and world history, History, Textiles and fibres
From a Bookshelf nearby
-
An exploration of the art, personalities and politics of Baroque Rome seen through the lens of Bernini's elephant carrying an obelisk. Lively, anecdotal and well illustrated.
-
The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more
-
London has twelve vast railway termini. What was involved in their construction (between 1836 and 1900), and what did they do to London?
-