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2thorold
Feb 18, 2013, 8:44 am

The loom of youth by Alec Waugh
Jenseits des Tweed by Theodor Fontane
A tangled web by L.M. Montgomery (and a thousand or so other books of that title)
Rumpole and the golden thread by John Mortimer
Dirty linen by Tom Stoppard

5abbottthomas
Edited: Feb 18, 2013, 2:09 pm

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Velvet Well by John Gearon
The clothes they stood up in by Alan Bennett
Silk by Samuel Merwin

6aviddiva
Feb 19, 2013, 3:32 am

How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
The Devil Wears Plaid by Theresa Medeiros
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver byE. L. Konigsberg
Straw into Gold by Gary D. Schmidt

7starbox
Mar 6, 2013, 4:26 pm

The Worsted Viper by Gladys Mitchell
Sateen Muisti by Anne Hanninen
Target in Taffeta by Ben Benson
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
And when she opened the Closet, all the clothes were Polyester!

10patchygirl
Edited: Nov 12, 2017, 7:35 am

King Cotton by Thomas Armstrong
Lace by Shirley Conran
Flame-coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff
Died in the Wool by Ngaio Marsh
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge

12rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 12, 2017, 1:29 pm

Diary of Cotton Mather, 1681-1724
by Cotton Mather

Cotton in my Sack by Lois Lenski

Later Woolen Mills in Oregon: a History of
the Woolen Mills which Followed the
Pioneer Mills by Alfred Lomax

Where Saskatchewan Prairie Wool
Grows by The Night Drifters

Textile Artistry by Valerie Campbell-Harding

13Jarandel
Nov 12, 2017, 1:59 pm

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

14rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 14, 2017, 1:44 pm

Cotton Mather by Barrett Wendell

Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith

"Corduroy's Day" by Don Freeman

Elizabeth LeFort: Canada's Artist in
Wool:= Elizabeth LeFort, Artiste
Canadienne de la Laine
by Daniel Doucet

The Red Woolen Blanket by Bob Graham

15MajorKira
Feb 16, 2018, 2:21 am

The Calico Year
The Velvet Room
Irish Lace
Cotton in my Sack
The Chinese Shawl