Weaving Is a Critical Technology That's Invented to Weave

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i learned to weave while i was researching the book. And weaving is much older than knitting. There are a million different kinds of looms around the world. The possibilities are pretty infinite, especially when you get fairly complex looms. We think of it as over under, over under, sort of lik when you're in kid and you do it with construction.

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.