Weaving in the World of Fabric: Virginia Postrel

On February 25th, there was an artist talk called “The Fabric of Civilization” by Virginia Postrel hosted by The Sac State Center for Practical and Professional Ethics via zoom meeting from 12 pm to 1:30 pm. 

                

In the lecture, Postrel mentions she was the author of the book, “The Fabric of Civilization”.  She discusses how humanity’s use of fiber has affected the way humans developed their technology, mythology, and language. The video below has Postrel talk about the history of fabric and the duration of the video is about 5 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HiqP8UQK_A

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Fiber is something like clothing, human wear to get warm and comfortable, sleep on the bed, walk with socks to shoes, and humanity is surrounded by elements to utilize fiber. History takes back with fiber evolve from what is used in war, economy, religion to the technology of computer and vehicle.  

Fiber a form made of cotton is processed for production. Which goes into the world of trades, consumers, and marketing. The company continues to innovate a bundle of an idea to what the future can hold and produce.  

One of the biological sources of natural fiber is cotton plants. Many countries like Mexico have cotton tree threads, and bushes that produce cotton. There was a flower mutation that grows fiber once but demarcated. 

       Last, there are ancient artifacts use to discover to weave into yarn of threads to make clothing and twisted string. One of the artifacts is called, drop spindle sticks that use the weight to spin the fiber to stretch. Another one is the spinning wheel spindle from China uses the side of the round weight to make fiber. The symbol of the spinning is the cycle of birth whats cotton is used to make fiber to threads that become clothing and more that use the fabric.