Textile Industries

Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture.

Un vent de bonheur souffle sur la villa aux étoffes : le troisième enfant de Marie et Paul Melzer vient de fêter ses quatre ans et le couple file le parfait amour. Mais la crise économique qui se répand en Europe met bientôt en péril l'usine textile familiale. Croulant sous des dettes qu'il ne peut rembourser, Paul est confronté à un choix déchirant : afin de préserver le sort de la famille, mais aussi des ouvriers et des domestiques, doit-il se résoudre à vendre la demeure qui abrite les joies et les peines des Melzer depuis tant de générations ?

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we...

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