pickThere's just something wonderful about a non-fiction book where the writer is passionate about the subject matter, wants to make sure everybody understands just how awesome it is, and can write in an engaging manner.
Every chapter in this book could spawn several books of its own. 1/?
Itsy Bitsy Helicopters!🚁
The history of dyes: fuck around and find out! 🤷🏼♂️😆
Currently reading colour way just struck me.
Book cover designers: "well you can't go wrong with a blue background..."??
Okay, who else thought Sherwood Forest was a fictional location from the legend of Robin Hood?
Don't be shy, we can all be newly informed doofuses together. 🤦🏼♂️
Fucking NIFTY!
The physical manufacturing history of computer hardware and software technology is officially going on my 'find books to read more about it' list.
What's even more fun than English onomatopoeia? Finding out about onomatopoeia in languages I don't speak.
"bistanclac"
Delightful. ???♥️
Knowledge sharing gives me the warm fuzzies. 🥰
I am in awe. 🙇🏼♂️
Espionage and assassinations (in silk production), oh my! 🫣
Don't see enough of THAT in history. ♀️💪🏻💵
Today, in things I did NOT know. 🤔😏
This came in the mail today! Can't wait to dig into the history of fabric and how textile creation influenced us in so many ways.
pickOkay, everyone talks about agriculture and economic systems as big drivers of advancing civilization. Turns out that we have collectively forgotten the biggest influence dating well before "civilized" existence: Textiles.
There are so many things covered in this book throughout the ages that my short blurb just won't cut it. You'll give your jeans & t-shirt a respectful not by the end. Some parts get dry and technical but still worth reading.
pickOverall pretty fascinating! I'm not a visual thinker at all (total aphantasia, actually) so I couldn't follow the descriptions of how machines work, but it's interesting to approach fabric as a technology and dig into it as such.
One thing that is kind of bothering me is the... apologism? Like she defends the low-paid status of women who spun thread because it would be cost-prohibitive to pay them more? And she's very much automatically on the side of the middlemen who sold cloth for others, saying they were unfairly treated by people who didn't know the worth of what they did? It hits weirdly for me.
This is super fascinating so far, though I couldn't visualise things well enough to follow the bit about how weaving works!
This is one of the most fascinating books I‘ve ever read. 📚💚📚❤️📚💙📚💚📚❤️📚💙📚💚📚
#poetrymatters #poetrytoday
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World | 
And yet so much is crammed in!
Chapter structure discusses the history of various elements of fabric production (as well as trading and consumption) and alongside it, the leaps and bounds made for human civilization by the manufacturing techniques, technology and social infrastructure such material production inspired. 10mo
As much engineering and invention, as much science, as history (not all of it pretty, of course). 10mo
We need that message out there. 10mo
I'm biased to plant-based fibres, I can't get too ecstatic about petroleum-based polymers and microfibers given our current understanding of the environmental costs.
Bit of a crime that all the photos and image reproductions are black and white.
Disgusting details of reconstructing the manufacturing process of the original Tyrian purple. Poor murex!
⚠️animal death, slavery, suicide 10mo