Textile History

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    • The Hidden History of the Material World
    • By: Victoria Finlay
    • Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • 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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    • How Textiles Made the World
    • By: Virginia I. Postrel
    • Narrated by: Caroline Cole
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 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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    • Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
    • By: Clare Hunter
    • Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom....

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    • A History in Three Metamorphoses
    • By: Aarathi Prasad
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Roberts, Aarathi Prasad
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics....

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    • The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
    • By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies....

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    • Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
    • By: Kate Strasdin
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Sali Hughes
    • Narrated by: Sali Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • A personal, expert look at iconic beauty products of the past, present and future from Britain's best and most trusted beauty writer....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Daniel R. Day
    • Narrated by: Omari Hardwick, Daniel R. Day
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 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....

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    • How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
    • By: Syl Tang
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • isrobed vividly considers the role that clothing plays in everything from natural disasters to climate change to terrorism to geopolitics to agribusiness....

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    • The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
    • By: Anne Higonnet
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-24
    • 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....

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    • A Life Amongst Clothes
    • By: Claire Wilcox
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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....

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    • By: Nicholas de Monchaux
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
    • By: Catherine E. McKinley
    • Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest....

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    • The Inside Story of Vogue
    • By: Nina-Sophia Miralles
    • Narrated by: Helen Duff
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 18-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue....

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    • A Shopper's Guide to France's Best Artisanal Traditions from Limoges Porcelain to Perfume, Pottery, Textiles, and More
    • By: Laura Morelli
    • Narrated by: Laura Morelli
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Organized by region, with one chapter devoted to Paris, Made in France takes you on a complete tour of the dazzling, artisanal legacy of France, uncovering off-the-beaten-path destinations and one-of-a-kind, hidden workshops....

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