Look around! Fabrics surround us from birth and accompany us throughout our lives. Perhaps now you are sitting on a soft seat in a train or subway car. You are wearing a wool sweater or calico shirt. Or maybe you are lying in bed on cozy cotton sheets, wrapped in a warm blanket? All this is made of linen - woven, felted or knitted. However, for all the importance of fabrics, few people think about what significance they represent for us and how tiny fibers have influenced history and humanity as a whole.Fabrics - natural and artificial - have changed, defined, moved forward the world in which we live and shape it. Allowed to create incredible things and survive in inhuman conditions. And this book will tell you how and why it happened:• From over 30,000-year-old bright threads found on the floor of a cave in Georgia to the true meaning of Tutankhamen's mummy's linen covers| • From the Silk Road to the woolen sails that helped the Vikings reach America 700 years before Columbus|• From the puffy lace collars that infuriated the Puritans to the Indian calico and calico that powered the Industrial Revolution .