The Nature of Fashion : A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives
by
Carry Somers
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1915294797
ISBN-13
9781915294791
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing UK
Imprint
Chelsea Green Publishing UK
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 16th, 2025
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.70 x 2.90 cms
Ksh 3,950.00
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"One of our favorite reads of 2025." Dressed: History of Fashion Podcast
Named one of the best fashion books of 2025 by Fashionista
2025 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award HONORABLE Mention for History
What if the story of humanity could be told through a single thread?
Long before we inked out thoughts onto parchment, perhaps even before we etched stories onto stone, we began spinning plant fibres. Textiles are among our earliest attempts to fashion the world around us. They have shaped our history, mythology, politics and trade, and transformed our relationship with the natural world.
From the moment someone first turned plant into fibre, cloth became a language, with threads like words, spun and woven. In The Nature of Fashion, global sustainable-fashion leader and activist Carry Somers travels through time and across cultures to explore these stories: from the first bark fibres twisted into string to the snow-white nettle cloth in Echigo, Japan. We are swept up in the trade wars between medieval England''s dyers, see the rise of fast fashion in Marie Antoinette''s France, and land in the present with stories of regeneration and hope from El Salvador, Peru and beyond.
In these stories of artists and idealists, rebels and reformers, the wisdom of the past is reconnected to the seeds of a sustainable future, offering a bold reimagining of what fashion could become. Vivid, impassioned and celebratory, The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through the hidden history of how we created clothing from plants.
Named one of the best fashion books of 2025 by Fashionista
2025 Foreword Reviews INDIES Award HONORABLE Mention for History
What if the story of humanity could be told through a single thread?
Long before we inked out thoughts onto parchment, perhaps even before we etched stories onto stone, we began spinning plant fibres. Textiles are among our earliest attempts to fashion the world around us. They have shaped our history, mythology, politics and trade, and transformed our relationship with the natural world.
From the moment someone first turned plant into fibre, cloth became a language, with threads like words, spun and woven. In The Nature of Fashion, global sustainable-fashion leader and activist Carry Somers travels through time and across cultures to explore these stories: from the first bark fibres twisted into string to the snow-white nettle cloth in Echigo, Japan. We are swept up in the trade wars between medieval England''s dyers, see the rise of fast fashion in Marie Antoinette''s France, and land in the present with stories of regeneration and hope from El Salvador, Peru and beyond.
In these stories of artists and idealists, rebels and reformers, the wisdom of the past is reconnected to the seeds of a sustainable future, offering a bold reimagining of what fashion could become. Vivid, impassioned and celebratory, The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through the hidden history of how we created clothing from plants.
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