#62 Tracing Textile History and Threads That Connect Cultures feat. Virginia Postrel

Textiles have played a significant role in our history and culture, starting with the Stone Age and continuing to the present. As award-winning journalist Virginia Postrel tells us, thread and fabric played are catalysts in revolutionizing human labor and innovations that economic historians often overlook. THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION is Virginia's book on textile history that stitches our aesthetics, history, and cultural identity. It focuses on textiles as among the oldest, most essential, and most pervasive of human inventions. In this episode, Virginia reminds us that people around the world are all woven together through our shared experiences, from using a string to hunting food to making clothes with artistic patterns. Show Links: Guest Profile Virginia Postrel's Official Website: https://vpostrel.com/about Virginia Postrel on LinkedIn:   / virginiapostrel   Virginia Postrel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vpostrel?ref_src=... Her Work Order Book: The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World: https://amzn.to/3C4jsma Order Book: The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion: https://amzn.to/3m4dITX Order Book: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness: https://amzn.to/3jpOKg2 Order Book: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise: https://amzn.to/3C6wuPS