In addition to those animal fibers that “grow out,” there is also another kind of animal fiber that...

Plants contributed their bast fibers to humanity’s great textile enterprise. But what about animals?...

Imagine that you are a clever and dexterous Neanderthal living in the Late Paleolithic. You need thr...

Spinning is the primary skill that enables humans to make use of fibers. The craft of spinning began...

The rise of the Industrial Revolution can, more or less, be traced back to a breathtaking episode of...

While collecting materials on textile technology for this history-of-technology website, I naturally...