Common Threads
Common Threads

Author: Sally Dwyer-McNulty

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 146961409X

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Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism

Common Threads
Common Threads

Author: Lee Hall

Publisher: Little Brown GBR

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780821219003

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An engaging, amusing, extensively illustrated look at what we wear--and have worn--from the arrival of the first Europeans in the New World, until the present day, Common Threads offerss, morals, and mores over the past five centuries. 420 illustrations.

The Fabric of Civilization
The Fabric of Civilization

Author: Virginia Postrel

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1541617614

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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

Common-Sense Clothing
Common-Sense Clothing

Author: Edith A. Barnett

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781230310503

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. ODDS AND ENDS. 149. Odds and Ends.--The scope of the foregoing chapters has compelled us to leave unmentioned certain matters relating to clothing that have, nevertheless, a considerable importance. And the size of this volume does not permit us to add further chapters. We have, therefore, assembled here certain odds and ends of information or advice for clothing under special circumstances, as bed-clothes, the laying-by of clothes for winter and summer, and other details. They have no more connection one with the other than odds and ends usually have. Our idea is that they may have some connection with the various and varied wants of our readers. 150. Bed-clothing.--Too little attention is paid to bed-clothing. One-third of life is, or should be, spent in bed, and if the immediate surroundings of the body influence health during the day, they are likely to exercise greater, rather than less, influence during the night. For at no other time are we unconscious, unable to rectify anything that may be wrong, and at no other time do we pass so many consecutive hours in the same place, under the same conditions. Bed-clothing should be warm but light, and should not retain the perspiration. Many of the more expensive kinds of white cotton counterpanes, so much in use, have the reverse of these qualities; and it is a good plan to turn them back from the bed and to replace them by blankets or quilts. For an invalid or bedridden person they should never be used. Some folks accustom themselves to sleep under heavy clothing. Anecdotes are related of travellers who are unable to sleep under a French duvet unless weighted by the superposition of an open portmanteau, and of agricultural poor who, in default of warmer covering, place a...