Publications

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• Blanket Weaving in the Southwest 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.
• Textile Technologies: a Historical Perspective 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.
• The Textile Industry in North Carolina: A History 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
• The Fibre that Changed the World 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.
• Silk 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.
• Treasures in Silk 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.
• Spinning Cotton: Domestic and Industrial Novels Abstract of an essay in 'Victorian Studies', examining the ways in which nineteenth-century domestic and industrial novels highlight and suppress different aspects of Britain's involvement in the Indian cotton trade. Author: Suzanne Daly.
• Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years 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.
• The Book of Silk 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.