Special Event - Virginia Postrel talks about "The Fabric of Civilization, How Textiles Made the World"
October 23, 2021
SPECIAL PRESENTATION IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GREATER VANCOUVER GUILD.
The presenter is Virginia Postrel, the author of The Fabric of Civilization, How Textiles Made the World. The author will take us on a tour of some of the innovations – in fiber, spinning, weaving and dyeing – that gave us today’s textile abundance and the ways textiles shaped civilization as we know it. During her research for The Fabric of Civilization, she learned to weave and is now the program co-chair for the Southern California Handweavers' Guild. Visit her website at vpostrel.com. NOTE DATE AND EARLIER TIME.
– this will be at 11:00 am Saturday --
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