Reading your book gave me a much better appreciation of just the clothes i have, and and the sheets i sleep in. I love the phrase, a sumptuary law. Did they call it that, or is that what we've labelled it? It's not like a mediaeval guild where you're not allowed to weave unless you're on the gild. And you're not smashing any looms, are you? Virginia? No, we're not smashing the looms. We ly keep acquiring new ones. They multiply like rabbits. Once you start this, you end up with a bunch of looms. The main effect that it had on me was because we're dealing with deep history going back
Author and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about her book The Fabric of Civilization and How Textiles Made the World with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Postrel tells the fascinating story behind the clothes we wear and everything that goes into producing them throughout history. The history of textiles, Postrel argues, is a good way of understanding the history of the world.