The History of Fabric Is the History of Civilization

[@danielcobbins9050]

We often think of the Industrial Revolution as being first associated with textiles. True, but let's look at what happened before mass production. It was a slow process making clothing, and due to their scarcity, they had to last a generation or more, which meant frequent washing would wear them out quickly. Mass production meant a revolution in hygiene, because worn out clothes could be easily replaced by new ones.

[@edwardcoit9748]

Smart and interesting take. Never thought about mass production and hygiene.

[@BakersTaste]

@@edwardcoit9748 hugely important in virtually every sector

[@thejohnbeck]

Craaaaap, another book to add to my list. Too many good books out there.

[@tocarules]

Life is so much simpler when your an illiterate like me and just watch KZbin.

[@Bpaynee]

Great book! I got it for my stepmom, and she liked it so much she got me my own copy. We've been trying to convince my dad to read it too. He loves history, but we can't convince him he'd be interested in the history of clothing. The silly thing is, reading this book is exactly what explains how big a piece of the picture is missing for him without taking it into account. I wish everyone would read this

[@ledelste]

Textiles are really interesting and Postrel is a great mind and communicator, so I’m excited for this book!

[@archerchance6214]

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[@ledelste]

@@archerchance6214 wat

[@georger64]

Oh, this spunds interesting! My mother worked in a textile mill in the early 1960s. I remember days when we picked her up from work, those huge halls with endless rows of looms, and yarns running everywhere, the noise, and cloth rolled, and folded. In many hostory books I read about the Nglish wool trade, and how it made Flanders great (at the risk of making it an economic one-tick-pony). And the calicos, sumptuary laws, and many other things. Yes, fabric is a fascinating topic, will definitely get the book!

[@keeya_ks]

Yup the calico you stole from india

[@jeffersonianideal]

"The touch; the feel of cotton, the fabric of our lives."

[@tocarules]

No worries. BLM will demand Biden put a reparations tax on racist cotton.

[@NwoDispatcher]

"The wool pulled over our eyes"

[@jeffersonianideal]

@@NwoDispatcher Some prefer the warm and fuzzy feeling that accompanies willful blindness.

[@jeffersonianideal]

@@tocarules Recently viewed bumper sticker: "If I knew it would have turned out this way I would have picked my own cotton."

[@NwoDispatcher]

@@jeffersonianideal conclusion to the American experiment, "pick your own cotton, strawberries, and be sure you keep out the blueberries.

[@pliskenmovie]

I always loved the James Burke "Connections" episode where he talks about how the Jacquard loom and it's "automation" cards led to a revolution in affordable clothing and just happened to be the forefather of computers.

[@JavierBonillaC]

If this was a 4 hour documentary, I'd happily pay the price of the book for it. A book is not the best format for this kind of explanation.

[@LindseyHolmes-d9r]

Must buy!! I feel that the Globalised Textiles market has 'spun' around my life ! My dad worked in the Cotton Exchange in Liverpool for years. The importation and exportation of Cotton wasn't thought of as an ethical issue until Mr Gandhi visited the mills. Later on, I worked as Art and textiles teacher at a school in Nottingham. The benefactor was a textiles magnet, who sold the businesses to India and China. Thus demoralising the designers, graduates, factory workers, tailors etc. Fast forward twenty years, I was invited to run a textiles project with a fashion class and Chinese fashion group- which bought the original looms from the haute couture fashion houses in Europe...

[@keeya_ks]

If you read what the British did to the cotton mills in India and the workers then it’s more than ethical it’s literal tainted in blood, if you think you are demoralised after stealing the indigenous cotton industry of India then it’s karma for what you did to the people you colonised

[@thegnosticatheist]

4:38 wise words. Default state of affairs is not what is a default state for rational argument when discussing things in abstract, but whatever we have right here, right now. But at the same time how things are or were should never dictate how things should be in the future. History should teach us how to achieve desired future, not what future we should want to achieve.

[@CloveCoast]

Accelerationism is based 😉

[@carawadley317]

A Libertarian giving a critique on Libertarianism, in the main Libertarian magazine- how refreshing!

[@soapbxprod]

The Jacquard Loom was the ancestor of the computer.

[@josephanglim7024]

Really enjoyed the book. I listened to the audiobook edition. I will be certainly be reading more on this topic especially in my home town of Philadelphia, What could have been a very boring topic was avoided by the authors interesting insights.

[@jennifermarielaracavazosma6234]

Very easy listen. Thanks!

[@vvee4725]

So sad to see so little information about India and textiles, considering how much of it was driven by it. Indian textiles were far superior to anything that the west produced, hence the protectionist measures. But I find any discussion of India's central role in the textile industry as basically non-existant in this video.

[@rachitkumar2450]

This is what we call eurocentrism my friend, the Brits can't overlook their egoistic small developments in comparison to gigantic human activities taken place in the colonies and it is evident in academia even now.

[@omarshaaban907]

Very good book I’m currently reading

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Sounds like a great book. Ordered on Amazon.

[@aliciaseecharan]

I heart calico. I thought it was wallpaper fabrics and cats 🤣🤣🤣💕

[@Unique_username-kr5cu]

Please consider ensuring closed captions on all of your videos so everyone can enjoy them

[@jlee8348]

Is an audiobook coming?

[@AKlover]

Most of the population has no intellectual curiosity whatsoever nor are they interested in thinking something outside of their normal bubble. Face facts, this book is not going to move in large numbers. Intellectual curiosity is dying of rapid death.

[@vigofox]

@@AKlover what are You weaving?

[@CloveCoast]

Seems like a cool book

[@Pravin_Yeshua_BTC]

Very interesting

[@MoonChildMedia]

I love textiles

[@temaroncansler4518]

as a libertarian myself i don't expect the world to be like a blank sheet of paper. I just believe that treating it like such will have the least drastic reprecusion.

[@vigofox]

If this belief actually was maintained, then the creation would unfold. It seems infact a clean page is not seen, serving as a useful excuse to what cannot become... there is nothing more paralyzing than a blank canvas for which we are responsible... yet every dawn we face it.

[@josephpostma1787]

What do mean by a blank sheet of paper? Are you refrencing it's dullness, or it's possibilities?

[@superviro]

As a libertarian, we do not want a clean sheet to start over. We just want minimal government intervention in our lives to maximize our freedom and pursuit of happiness. If that’s radical, then fine, call me a radical.

[@148.gforlife4]

This is compared to cocaine....i just don't want to be naked. Hemp clothing was for the poor. Army was poor and cotton was rich for slave owners. Silk is China popular textile...im lucky i don't understand. Excellent educational video.

[@harrishartman2]

Crude Palm Oil in Indonesia and Malaysia: Hello my old friend.

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[@vvee4725]

This is so bizarre, it's almost as if she's overlooking, or worse ignoring completely the reason why there was a textile industry in Europe. Not accusing her of erasure just yet, but to ignore facts of history is... interesting. NOTE: Cotton does not grow in Europe. Where did it come from? So while the European nations banned Indian imports of finished goods, and the British outlawed and made illegal the craft of local artisans in India, the wholesale import of Cotton as a Raw product was shipped to Europe en masse. Why did she not mention this? As in India basically funded the industrial revolution of the British empire both in terms of monetary assets like gold, but more importantly also with export and forcible overproduction of raw goods like Cotton and Indigo. This why we see huge famines. Farmers were basically forced to overproduce luxury goods, while underproduced crops that were essential for food security. The Europeans powers fueled their engines at the expense of other nations.

[@samueltubb7931]

what the hell is your point? that oh india got treated badly by england. yeah we know that what does that have to do with this??

[@vvee4725]

​@@samueltubb7931 One would assume that any history of Textiles would go into detail about the King of the textile industry, which was India.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@samueltubb7931 that how important India was to European textile industry and King of it before colonisation

[@samueltubb7931]

V Vardan have you read the book?

[@krazykkarl]

Say what??? You mean a 5 minute video didn't contain the entire story of hundreds of years of history????

[@laurensrodi9501]

who was the artist that did the painting at 4:22 ?

[@laurensrodi9501]

found it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cotton_Office_in_New_Orleans

[@jackiebunting4000]

How did the cotton get over to the New World?? It didn't travel by sea, I think it emerged again after the Flood.

[@keeya_ks]

It came from India , India invented cotton textile over the centuries it was a traded good over the old world and Indian textures were known worldwide if you did some research instead of listening to white supremacists who think it’s ok to rewrite history you might learn that Europe colonised to steal industries and skills from other races, Indians invented calico printing and the British don’t bother to give recognition to the skill they looted from India

[@AKlover]

Interesting bit about the African cotton strain somehow migrating to South America. It’s almost like the people who speculate there was a previous civilization that collapsed that we have no memory of we’re onto something.

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

yes..thats all very intersting bur HOW is cloth made????

[@arandomzoomer4837]

ReasonTV what are you doing what does this have to do with libertarianism? Oh well it’s kinda cool

[@holycrapchris]

Taxation of calico shows the government's attempts at protectionism are futile in the face of consumer demand. When it's technology vs. government, technology wins.

[@cheemsofthemicrowave2929]

why does she have gamer headphones

[@doxasophosmoros]

I like this woman, but her voice is soooo grating to listen to, ughhhh. Is she a smoker or what

[@somenothing7914]

4:39

[@tocarules]

Civilization sure, but there was civilization that used hides for clothing. Modernity however goes to the lathe or more accurately the metal lathe. The lathe freed up time for everything else. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpulaqKBa9WemKM

[@davidcanatella4279]

i’ll stay with hemp ,thanks anyway

[@parkerbrown-nesbit1747]

Actually, the more you wash hemp fabric, the softer it gets. It's really strong, so it doesn't wear out as quickly (like cotton), and it doesn't rot as quickly. Hemp was used for some soldier's clothing in the 1700s.

[@gaozhi2007]

The history of fabric is the fabric of history. Do I have to do your damn jobs for you? :)

[@hsmd4533]

This woman’s voice is difficult to listen to.