Non-fiction stories about the way textiles intersect with our lives through art, history, textile industry, farming, or reflections on craft.
created by katrynseeburger
last updated June, 2026
Mindfulness in Knitting: Meditations on Craft & Calm (Mindfulness series)
Rachael Matthews
The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion's Size-Inclusivity Revolution
Gianluca Russo
Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art
Ferren Gipson
Many Hands Make A Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting
Jess Bailey
Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion (O'Brien Irish Heritage)
Vawn Corrigan
Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary
Maddie Ballard
Craft Without Pain: Injury prevention and self-care for knitters and other makers
Andrea Lui
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd
Axel Lindén
Silk: A World History
Aarathi Prasad
The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Womanâs Journey to Save Scotlandâs Original Sheep
Jane Cooper
Worn: A People's History of Clothing
Sofi Thanhauser
Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
Victoria Finlay
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting
Alanna Okun
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
Rebecca Burgess
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Nicole Nehrig
This Long Thread
Jen Hewett
Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine
Rachel Dedman
Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Adrienne Martini
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
Ann Hood
Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting
Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
Lucy Adlington
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and Design
Anthea Black
The Politics of Global Craft
D Wood
The Power of Knitting
Loretta Napoleoni
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories
Pamela A. Parmal
Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
Peggy Orenstein
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt
Lisa Gail Collins
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Womenâs Lives, 1660â1900
Barbara Burman
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
Hannah Carlson
Subversive Stitch, The: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
Rozsika Parker
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