Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of Civilization

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:28.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.9	Today is September 1, 2020, and my guest is journalist and author, Virginia Postrel.
0:36.3	I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:42.1	Virginia last appeared on e-con talk.
0:44.2	It's hard to believe, but it was November of 2006.
0:48.4	Talking about style, her latest book is The Fabric of Civilization, How Textiles Made
0:54.8	The World.
0:55.8	Virginia, welcome back to e-con talk.
0:57.5	It's great to be with you.
0:59.3	I want to remind listeners you can watch this interview on YouTube if all goes well,
1:03.9	and you can listen to it wherever podcasts are available.
1:09.4	Virginia your book explores the incredible array of stuff that we make fabric from and
1:14.0	how that process is evolved over time.
1:17.1	Let's start with a simple item, maybe a shirt or a sweater, and talk about how that was
1:23.0	made in the past, and then we'll talk about how it's made in the present.
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