Virginia Postrel, “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” (Basic Books, 2020)

Virginia Postrel, “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World” (Basic Books, 2020)

In The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781541617605)  (Basic Books, 2020), Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles.

The story begins with our distant ancestors who used string to fashion the earliest tools. Then, ten thousand years ago, humans began farming not only…

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