I’m reading by your book now and I have to stop and do many mini lessons

excellent video just please turn down the music as it drowns out your narration.

Virginia, your work is great. I am a real addict when it comes to educational videos on KZbin. Believe me when I tell you that your channel is vastly underrated. These are tremendous and give me so much to think about. I've tried telling people about the mile of fabric in bandanas but I can't make it as interesting as you. Thank you for providing all this content I'm absolutely in love with how much there is to learn about a textiles!

Fascinating bit of history! You are a wonderful storyteller.

The machine seems to be largely made of wood. It’s just astonishing how skilled our ancestors were in pre-industrial times.

A beautiful watch

So interesting! Thanks

Extraordinary! Thank you, this was SO interesting on so many levels: textiles, fashion, trade agreements, and how governments are not FOR the People.

This was incredibly informative; I learned so much, thank you for sharing 🙏

How would anyone want a print summer dress if they didn't exist? Most women don't spend much of our lives "dreaming" about clothes or things we don't have. It's merchants who keep telling us what we should "want".

Why do so many American woman speak with that dreadful "vocal fry"

Very nice report, well done. Madam, all of history shows that Europeans were extremely ignorant in ancient times and dirty in terms of cleanliness, unlike now. It was a black history, without a doubt.

Very interesting. Funny, I don't like prints of any kind but I still enjoyed the video.😂 Thanks 🖖

You should read the comments on your videos! Many folks trying to let you know that lowering the music volume in these videos would make them much more watchable & garner many more views. All your hard work & excellent content is being drowned out by the over-loud--uncomfortably loud--music.

wow. super. barbarians killing people for wearing "not the right" kind of clothes. Fascists.

Thank you for share your knwoledge. For sure i will buy your book.

All of this has application for what is happening in the world today. Supposedly living in an enlightened age, and yet we are back, sliding into fear and nationalism.

This is sooo fascinating!! And the reference images are delightful, too

Really interesting, but with all respect - the music is quite overpowering

Who can read THAT fast 😅

Sorry hon, can't take the background music that loud. Very hard to understand you.

The music is super loud... 😔

I REALLY WANTED TO WATCH YOUR VIDEO BUT YOUR BACKGROUND MUSIC WAS TOO LOUD AND YOUR VOICE TOO SOFT.

So, again, it comes from India.

Kinda sounds like the situation with the dock and wharf workers here in the United States. They want protection fpr their jobs from the automatic machinery that would replace some of them, yet, it would be better for the country to have more automation when it comes to the supply chain now wouldn't it? A pandemic would be much less likely to cripple a countries ability to still import and export goods thereby keeping the quality of life better for everyone during a difficult time. Of course the wharf workers don't see it that way. They already make between 81K and 200K and yet want a 75% pay increase? There is greed wherever you go. From the CEO on top, to the common employee on the bottom. I so wish India had been allowed to continue its marvelous trade of calico with the rest of the world. Such a shame and loss of superior artistry. But this is what happens when capitalism is meddled with. Protectionism is not capitalism. It can be associated with nationalism, but it is different than capitalism. If capitalism had been allowed to run it's course without interference, then the calico trade would be alive and well today.

Why isn't cochineal color-fast today? I just bought a tube of cochineal Schmincke watercolor. It is not lightfast. Alas.

I probably own close to 50 bandanas right now I always had one on when riding my motorcycle and usually a couple tied to the back seat just in case. I’ve worn them as halter tops to headbands and now share them with my dogs. My vet often comments on what my girls are wearing when they have an appointment!

some indian cotton weavers had their hands chopped off too

Your talk is fascinating, but it would be easier to hear if the music was lower

The content of this video was very interesting, and the history of Indian calico and the impact it had on both fashion and law in Europe is fascinating. The musical track is too loud, though, and distracting. Also, sorry, but I found that you are not looking at the camera but rather to the side as you're reading was creepy. I dont know why, but it was.

I played the flute music at 2:43 in high school!

He's miles from myself in politics, but makes various good points. On housing his discussion of flat-dwelling families begs the point 'how much space/amenity does one need'? In the '30s the influence of Bauhaus designers meshed quite neatly with the trend for city-dwellers to occupy small city units. These days employers are becoming more receptive to distance working but key service workers often cannot join this trend, therefore the issue becomes 'how can we service large cities'? The Blitz created opportunities for radical housing solutions & medium-rise estates such as Golden Lane were intended to house key City workers. This concept has become frayed; privatisation combined with a pause in building social housing & massive inernational investment eroded supply & left key workers physically on the margins. We need fewer Canary Wharfs & fewer rich people buying into iconic blocks plus a reform to rental & lease legislation

White people stole everything from others

How dreadful! The wicked government protecting its workers who were free to demand a fair wage, against imported goods from countries where garments were made by enslaved or colonised workers. I've never heard a scholar defend Temu before, but here we are. How enlightened.

Bravo🔥

save jobs 😅 classic American outcry 👎🤡 more like save our US right to over price and rob from others another classic American mark😡

Very interesting and informative and imagine the humble Calico causing so much strife!

I'm afraid of wearing prints and textiles, I don't know why, maybe it just looks too fancy for me. But I never expected that people could be arrested or executed over wearing clothes. That sounds insane, but I guess there's a lot about history that would shock people.

Watching the video from Calicut/ Kozhikode, town in India which was produced this fabric and hence the name of the town was given to the fabric. This was a new information for me as well!

To the creator, please turn down the background music. It’s way too loud and distracting. Thank you

Textured linen underwear 😂

Real fashion police, and from France!

Your background music is WAYYYYYY TO LOUD!

I’d love to watch it all the way through, but the music is annoying and distracting.

It's really hard to focus on what you're saying with that loud music in the background, I love the subject matter but that music made this video on watchable I'm sorry

Vocal fry makes narrative unlistenable. A horrible, nasal racket 😡

This is just fascinating! Luv it

Love the got milk joke on the shirt!

Well presented; very informative.

As a fellow fiberartist I'm intrigued with this material. I wouldn't make anything as large as a garment but something small, perhaps crochet jewelry, could be a way to showcase this unusual fiber. (I live in a climate that seems to be hard on some textiles, not only are wool and silk vulnerable but even stored rayon can come out with "moth holes.")