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The Nature of Fashion: A Botanical Story of Our Material Lives

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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...