FABRIC OF TIME
FABRIC: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE MATERIAL WORLD, by Victoria Finlay (Allen & Unwin, $55 hb)
In early 2015, when best-selling author Victoria Finlay was approached to write a book about fabric, she was hesitant. Cloth, clothing, and why, since the dawn of time, people have is, as a result, both a memoir and an intriguing globetrotting delve into the origins of fabric and the clothes we wear and how, through the centuries, they came into being.
