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Haptic & Hue

The best textile books gathered together in one place: these books tell more of the stories explored in the podcast, Haptic and Hue's Tales of Textiles, or they are just great books about the world of cloth. The list is curated by the narrator, Jo Andrews. It is an invitation to explore a world of colour and touch and to find out more about the chatter of cloth. By buying books here you help to support the Haptic and Hue podcast. These are the books I have enjoyed, or those that relate to different episodes of Haptic and Hue. 

HOW TO KILL A WITCH: A Guide For The Patriarchy
Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs
Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest
Stephen Ellcock’s Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection
Pleating: Fundamentals for Fashion Design
Wild Yarn: Creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres
Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive
The Great Tapestry of Scotland
RSN Stitch Bank: 200 Essential Embroidery Stitches
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Stitching Resistance: Women, Creativity, and Fiber Arts
Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
Tapestry
Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion
The Point of the Needle: Why Sewing Matters
Washing Lines: A Collection of Poems
Sharp Notions
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
Circular Fashion: Making the Fashion Industry Sustainable
Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South
Artists' Textiles 1940-1976
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers
Warhol: The Textiles
Kaffe Fassett: The Artist's Eye
Off the Wall: American Art to Wear
A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans
Unconventional & Unexpected, 2nd Edition: American Quilts Below the Radar, 1950–2000
Archie Brennan: Tapestry as Modern Art
An Unbroken Thread: Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour
Sheila Hicks: Thread Trees River
Lucienne Day: Textile Design
Anni Albers
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest
Stephen Ellcock’s Book of Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
The Roman Textile Industry and its influence
Creativity in the Bronze Age: Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
Bucked in the Yarn - The unique heritage of Coker Canvas: The unique heritage of Coker Canvas
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
The Shoemaker's Stitch: Mochi Embroideries of Gujarat in the TAPI Collection
Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770
A New Deal for Quilts
Warhol: The Textiles
We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women
Textiles on Film
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velazquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV
By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
The Corset: a perfect chilling read to curl up with this winter
The Secret Lives of Dresses
The Last Collection
The Pink Suit
The Seamstress
Hester: a bewitching tale of desire and ambition
The Dressmaker of Paris: 'A story of loss and escape, redemption and forgiveness. Fans of Lucinda Riley will adore it' (Sunday E
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
The Lace Weaver
The Winter Dress: Two women separated by centuries drawn together by one beautiful silk dress
Thread Ripper
Mendings
Inside the Westminster Menswear Archive
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore
Africa Fashion
The Secret Life of Tartan
All Buttons Great and Small: A compelling history of the button, from the Stone Age to today
Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs: American Women of the Late 19th Century
Warhol: The Textiles
The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World
Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour
The Glass of Fashion: A Personal History of Fifty Years of Changing Tastes and the People Who Have Inspired Them
Jane Austen's Wardrobe
Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe
How to Read a Suit: A Guide to Changing Men’s Fashion from the 17th to the 20th Century
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 21st Century
Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Women's Work: From feminine arts to feminist art
A New Deal for Quilts
The Craftivist Collective Handbook
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality
Labels of Empire: Textile Trademarks: Windows into India in the Time of the Raj
Precious Threads and Precarious Lives: Histories of Shawl and Silk Industries of Kashmir, 1846–1950
Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework
Shedding the Shackles: Women's Empowerment Through Craft
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz
The Culture of Clothes
Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World
Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs
Wild Yarn: Creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres
The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
Shepherd's Life: Paintings of Jenny Armstrong by Victoria Crowe
A Shepherd's Life
The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook: More Than 200 Fibers from Animal to Spun Yarn
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn
Raw Material: Working Wool in the West
Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
Russian Textiles
The V&A Book of Colour in Design
The Secret Lives of Colour
Yellow: The History of a Color
Red: The History of a Color
Black: The History of a Color
Green: The History of a Color
Blue: The History of a Color
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans
2000 Colour Combinations: For Graphic, Web, Textile and Craft Designers
Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away
Dictionary of Lace
The History of Lace
The romance of the lace pillow; being the history of lace-making in Bucks, Beds, Northants and neighbouring counties, together w
The Identification of Lace
Lace Identification: A Practical Guide
Beginner's Guide to Bobbin Lace
Lace: P.Lace.S - Looking Through Antwerp Lace
The Foundling: The gripping Sunday Times bestselling historical novel, from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures award
Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture
The City of Tears: A Sweeping Historical Adventure from the No. 1 Bestselling Author
World Textiles
African Textiles: The Karun Thakar Collection
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags
The Textile Reader
Indian Textiles: 1,000 years of art and design
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Victorian Paisley Shawls
The Flowering Desert: Textiles from Sindh
Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors
The Indian Textile Sourcebook: Patterns and Techniques
Flowers from Universe: Textiles of Java
Textiles: A World Tour: Discovering Traditional Fabrics & Patterns
This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection
The history of the shoddy-trade
Shoddy. a Yorkshire Tale of Home.
Amish Quilts and the Welsh Connection
Pleating: Fundamentals for Fashion Design
RSN Stitch Bank: 200 Essential Embroidery Stitches
Kantha: Sustainable Textiles and Mindful Making
Cloth Stories: Capturing domestic life in textile art
Intelligent Hands: Why making is a skill for life
Poetic Cloth: Creating meaning in textile art
Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art: Data visualization in cloth and stitch
Mixed Media Textile Art in Three Dimensions
Geometry of Hand-Sewing: A Romance in Stitches and Embroidery from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making
An Unbroken Thread: Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework
The Identification of Lace
Lace Identification: A Practical Guide
Beginner's Guide to Bobbin Lace
A Life in Fabric: Bring Colour, Pattern and Texture into Your Home
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art