Textile History

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    • How Textiles Made the World
    • Written by: Virginia I. Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide....

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    • A Memoir
    • Written by: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes....

    Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • Written by: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • How Japan Saved American Style
    • Written by: W. David Marx
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-31
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Ametora, cultural historian W. David Marx traces the Japanese assimilation of American fashion over the past 150 years....

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    • A World History
    • Written by: Aarathi Prasad
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-30
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.

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    • The Hidden History of the Material World
    • Written by: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-03
    • Language: English
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    • Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and completing the trilogy of books which began with her first bestseller Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox....

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    • Coco Chanel's Secret War
    • Written by: Hal Vaughan
    • Narrated by: Susan Denaker, Mark Deakins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture. She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair....

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    • A Cultural History
    • Written by: Zahra Hankir
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the distant past to the present, with fingers and felt-tipped pens, metallic powders and gel pots, humans have been drawn to lining their eyes....

    Price: $23.99 or 1 Credit

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    • Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
    • Written by: Kate Strasdin
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-06
    • Language: English
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    • In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of her life and times. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes....

    Price: $20.51 or 1 Credit

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    • Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
    • Written by: Rhonda Garelick
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2014-09-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is Chanel at the nexus of history: a woman of daring, passion, and legendary vision, in a wonderful biography that gives her long-awaited due....

    Price: $41.67 or 1 Credit

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    • A Philosophy of Clothes
    • Written by: Shahidha Bari
    • Narrated by: Shahidha Bari
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....

    Price: $20.39 or 1 Credit

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    • In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
    • Written by: Catherine E. McKinley
    • Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2013-02-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest....

    Price: $26.40 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Sali Hughes
    • Narrated by: Sali Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A personal, expert look at iconic beauty products of the past, present and future from Britain's best and most trusted beauty writer....

    Price: $30.09 or 1 Credit

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    • Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
    • Written by: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-27
    • Language: English
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    • Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America....

    Price: $29.65 or 1 Credit

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    • The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
    • Written by: Anne Higonnet
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-30
    • Language: English
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    • Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose....

    Price: $21.92 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Nicholas de Monchaux
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-13
    • Language: English
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    • When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function....

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    • A Biography of Diamonds
    • Written by: Rachelle Bergstein
    • Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2016-07-18
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliance and Fire offers a glittering history of the world's most coveted gemstone and its greatest champions and most colorful enthusiasts....

    Price: $20.04 or 1 Credit

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    • How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
    • Written by: Syl Tang
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-16
    • Language: English
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    • isrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness....

    Price: $17.81 or 1 Credit

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    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • Written by: Claire Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes....

    Price: $12.29 or 1 Credit

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