The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World - Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel is an award-winning journalist and independent scholar. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and has been a columnist for the Atlantic , the Wall Street Journal , and the New York Times . She is the author of the highly acclaimed The Substance of Style and The Power of Glamour . Her research is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles, California.