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http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300117418 - http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300117418
Handbook about the history and development of silk, its properties and practical uses, and its role in the history of fashion design. Published by Yale University Press. Author: Mary Schoeser. |
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Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage - http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/mihr/33.2/br_7.html
Review of a book presenting an account of Michigan's handloom weavers and weaving as well as the story of Michigan's fiber-arts tradition. Authors: Marie A. Gile and Marion T. Marzolf. |
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Blanket Weaving in the Southwest - http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/BID1509.htm
Book about the history of blanket weaving, describing the evolution of southwestern textiles from the early historic period to the late nineteenth century, establishes a revised chronology for its development, and traces significant changes in materials, techniques, and designs. Author: Joe Ben Wheat. |
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The English Wool Market, c. 1230-1327 - http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1322
Review of a handbook about the trade in English wool whose production, acquisition, exchange, and manufacture launched countless ships, occupied many merchants, and kept the looms of Flanders, England, and Italy working, but which in the period covered also was in chronically short supply. Authors: Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Dryburgh. Reviewed by James M. Murray. |
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The Cambridge History of Western Textiles - http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=0521341078
Two-volume standard work on the production and uses of textiles, through the eyes of archaeologists, economic and social historians, historians of fashion and the history of dress, and museum curators familiar with surviving artefacts. Edited by David Jenkins. |
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/review-01.html
Review of a book about the history of hand spinning, weaving and women's involvement in the business of cloth manufacture both within and outside the home throughout the ages, with the primary emphasis being on archaeological problem solving and the ancient and classical periods. Author: Elizabeth Wayland Barber. |
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Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States - http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0502
Study of the institutional history of textile unionism in the United States from 1830 to the present times, containing a chronicle of the rise and fall of the Textile Workers Union of America. Author: Clete Daniel. |
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Textile Technologies: a Historical Perspective - http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/t_pr/t_pr_gupta_textile_frameset.htm
Extensive review of Charu Smita Gupta's book about the technologies of various Indian processes of textile manufacture from prehistoric times to the present day. From the Infinity Foundation web site. |
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The Textile Industry in North Carolina: A History - http://nc-historical-publications.stores.yahoo.net/256x.html
Survey of North Carolina's textile industry from its roots in the spinning wheels and hand looms of the colonial and Revolutionary periods through the massive buy-outs, consolidations, and plant closings of the 1980s. Published by North Carolina Office of Archives and History. Author: Brent D. Glass |
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The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective - http://www.hbs.edu/bhr/archives/bookreviews/79/khoneyman.pdf
Detailed review of a collections of articles and essays about aspects of the European linen industry and its colonial American trading partners during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Edited by Brenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw. Book review by Katrina Honeyman. |
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Textile Town - http://www.hubcity.org/history/textile-town.html
Illustrated narrative, scrapbook and encyclopedia compiled by scholars and blue-collar workers, presenting the history of the more than 50 cotton mills and textile factories in Spartanburg County, South Carolina from 1816 to the present. Includes the lyrics of cotton mill songs, and a glossary of textile terms and historical entries. |
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Field to Fabric: The Story of American Cotton Growers - http://www.ttup.ttu.edu/BookPages/0896722384.html
Book about the history, development, and the economic and social impact of the cotton industry on West Texas society. Published by the Texas Tech University Press. Author: Jack Lichtenstein. |
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The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South - http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2001/3421.html
Idealistic chronicle of the textile industry founders in Southern USA, written and published in 1921, providing a first full-length account of the advent of the cotton-textile industry in the region. Re-publish by the University of South Carolina Press. Author: Broadus Mitchell. |
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A Global History of Cotton Textiles: 1200-1850 - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/global-textiles/book1.pdf
Book review and index of a collection of essays examining the history of cotton textiles, and investigating the mystery of the different paths of development taken by the cotton industries of Europe and Asia during that time period. Edited by Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi. |
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Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa - http://books.heinemann.com/Products/08968.aspx
Review and table of content of a collection of case studies describing the dramatic changes in the social history and structure of Africa's agrarian society, caused by the cotton trade and colonialism. Editors: Richard Roberts and Allen Isaacman. |
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How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850 - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/research/global-textiles/giorgio_book2.pdf
Review of a book argueing against the preponderance of Western Europe as the motor of the world through the assessment of the relative size, geographic extension and economic relevance of cotton production and trade between 1500 and 1850 in India and Asia. Edited by Om Prakash and others. |
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An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830–1930 - http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521581982
Historical analysis of the development and growth of the global silk industry. Published by the Cambridge University Press. Author: Prof. Giovanni Federico. |
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The History of Cotton - http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2008/4295.html
Introduction to the history of the cotton industry in the South of the United States. Methods of growing, harvesting and ginning of cotton, cotton classification and uses of cotton seed. From the South Carolina Cotton Museum. |
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History of Hand Knitting - http://www.interweave.com/knit/books/history_hk.asp
Review of a handbook about the history of the technique and social aspects of hand knitting in Europe and the Americas, based on literary evidence. Includes a definition of knitting in relation to other yarn crafts as crochet and nålbinding, a historical glossary, clear technical diagrams, and a large number of designs charted from historical items. Author: Richard Rutt. |
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The Book of Silk - http://www.thameshudson.co.uk/books/The_Book_of_Silk/9780500283080.mxs/25/0/
Paperback conveying the rich history of silk through five millennia, reproducing hundreds of fabrics, furnishings and garments, from ancient China, where the secret of reeling silkworm cocoons was first discovered, by the legendary Silk Routes to Byzantium and the Islamic world, to Ottoman Turkey and India, to the Renaissance, and the baroque and rococo silks of western Christendom, and ends with the silk fashion of the present. Published by Thames and Hudson. Author: Philippa Scott. |
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The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective - http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/EconomicHistory/?view=usa&ci=9780199255658
Collection of original essays providing an overview of linen production and consumption in Europe and North America since the Middle Ages. Published by the Oxford University Press. Edited by Brenda Collins and Philip Ollerenshaw. |
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The Fibre that Changed the World - http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryOther/EconomicHistory/?view=usa&ci=9780199255665
Collection of essays showing how cotton became the vehicle for factory-based production and associated industrialization, and frequently served as a focus for the readjustment of mature industrial economies. Published by the Oxford University Press. Edited by Douglas Farnie and David Jeremy. |
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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry - http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.4/br_17.html
Review of a study on women working in the Bengal jute industry during the late colonial period between 1897 and Indian independence in 1950, based on colonial records and legislative materials, jute mill and trade union records, and some interviews. Author: Samita Sen. |
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Treasures in Silk - http://www.wys.com.cn/silk-book/index.html
Illustrated history of Chinese textiles, describing the importance of sericulture, and silk production and design on traditional Chinese art. Includes a detailed glossary on sericulture and textile technologies, and links to related sites. English and Chinese. Author: Feng Zhao. |
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Textile History - http://www.maney.co.uk/search?fwaction=show&fwid=220
Journal of the history of textiles and the textile industry, their technological development, design and conservation, and the history of dress and other uses of textiles. From the Pasold Research Fund. |