A History Of Textiles

By Kax Wilson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1979, this volume acts as a reference for the history textiles. It asks questions on the effect of technology on textiles, how did particular historical periods and locations expand or limit the possibilities for the manufacture of fabrics and how the textile history related to politics and economics, sociology and psychology, art and engineering, anthropology and archaeology, chemistry and physics. Addressing these questions, the author surveys the development of the technical components of fabrics and discusses the textiles of selected places and times. She uses prose, drawings and more than 130 photographs to show how each era of textile production reflects its age. This book is designed to serve as a college text and as a reference work for museum researchers. With sections including illustrations and diagrams; key terminology; spinning wool; spinning and raw materials; single ply and cord and fabric construction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367169118
• ISBN13: 9780367169114
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

“The fabric of our lives” - by Leona Lewis.

To give this book a proper review would be to write a book in itself. However, the title is the best clue to the innards. There are 130 black and white photographs depicting different textiles and equipment used to work with textiles throughout various ages. This is supplemented with plenty of monochrome diagrams and drawings. Designed in textbook fashion, each chapter has an extensive bibliographic essay. I saw some devices that I had not seen before in other textile books. I would also like to have a few of the more exotic looms. Unfortunately, no room in the loom room. And I have always wanted a flax breaker.