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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World BOTY_2025 Cook was renowned for hisA journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth (The New York Times) The story of humanity is the story of textilesas old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business,