ASMR - History of Textiles, Fabrics and Clothing

In this male soft spoken ASMR video with hand movement, we explore the history of textiles, fabrics and clothing:
- where fibers come from and how they were adopted by mankind, with special sections about the history of cotton, silk and wool.
- how fabrics, their manufacturing and trade, influenced international relations and contributed to economic history.
- the evolution of clothing and a few things it tells us about Western societies since the 15th Century.

Gail Rotschild's website: https://www.gailrothschild.com/
Her next international exhibition will take place in 2021 at the Bode Museum in Berlin. It will feature large paintings of ancient textiles alongside the originals.

Video about the history of colours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3A_ijH-qo

Credits: script and narration by the French Whisperer, images by the French Whisperer, under Wikipedia Commons, and courtesy of Gail Rothschild (pictures with title), thumbnail by the French Whisperer using a photo under Web License from Panthermedia.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Art, Crafts and Decoration
5:31 Prehistory and Felt
8:50 Invention of Weaving and Flax
13:30 Textile Making
16:41 Cotton in Precolombian America and India
21:45 Cotton, Europeans and Americans
26:55 Discovery of Silk
30:06 Silk in China
34:17 Silk in the West
38:17 Birth of the Luxury Goods Industry
43:52 Origins of Wool
49:58 Wool in the Middle Ages
52:07 Wool Trade and Birth of Modern Capitalism
56:27 What is Clothing About?
59:12 Clothing Regulation
1:00:51 What is Fashion?
1:03:44 Archetypes of Clothes
1:05:59 15th to mid-17th Century
1:10:12 Late 17th and 18th Century
1:15:03 19th Century
1:19:00 20th Century
1:22:58 Synthetic Fibers