Recs if you like Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World...

The history of *[niche subject]*

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Where We Meet the World: The Story of the SensesButts: A Backstory

microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World History

Walk walk fashion baby

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The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social TheoryAdorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Learning how textiles shape history

by gabymulbooks
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s WardrobeWith Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

the greatest thing since (or until) sliced bread

by endless_tbr_list
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and OurselvesThe Library: A Fragile History

Brain Food

by alexz
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How to Build a Time Machine: The Real Science of Time TravelPlatypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

👒 from head to toe 👡

by endless_tbr_list
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Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth CenturyUnraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment

All about textiles and fashion history

by evie.reads.too.much
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesThreads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

for the love of fiber arts

by asim0v
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Subversive Stitch, The: Embroidery and the Making of the FemininePockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Pins and Needles

by TheNerdyBookWitch
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Indigo: Cultivate, Dye, CreateDried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle

Reading Specifically, and Deeply

by UtopiaBunny
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of IndentureDecolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)

Craft NonFiction

by katrynseeburger
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A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of YarnVanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool