This page honours the tools, skills and material traditions that connect land to daily life. Material culture reflects how people live with the materials a landscape provides. Fibre, tools, clothing, and everyday objects carry knowledge about labour, environment, and adaptation. The works gathered here explore those relationships through textiles, craft, and the traditions of making, both at artisan and industrial scales.

Fibre, Textiles and the Land-based Economy

“Fibershed, Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy”; Rebecca Burgess with Courtney White; Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019
“The Fabric of Civilization, How Textiles Made the World”; Virginia Postrel; Basic Books, NY, 2020
“D.W. & W. News”; Archived, the in-house publication of Dominion Worsted and Woollens
“The True Cost of Wool”; Anna Hunter; 9/10 Publications, 2024
“Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook, More Than 200 Fibers from Animal to Spun Yarn”; Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius; Storey Publishing, 2009

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Clothing, Handwork and Practical Skill

“Make Your Own Patterns, A primer in patternmaking for those who like to sew”; Adele Margolis; illus. by Judy Skoogfors; Doubleday and Company, NY, 1985
“Rug Weavers Source Book”; edited by Linda C. Ligon, photography by Joe Coca, Illus. by Susan Strawn; Interweave Press, 1984
“GWG: Piece by Piece”; Catherine C. Cole; Gooselane, 2020
“The Magic of Pockets, a Feminist’s Guide to Adding Pockets to Clothing that Really Should Have Pockets to Begin With”; Jess Driscoll; 9/10 Publications, 2025

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Craft, Tools and the Meaning of Making

“Why We Make Things and Why It Matters, The Education of a Craftsman”; Peter Korn; David R. Godine, 2013

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Natural Materials, Dyes and Plant Knowledge

“Wild Colour, How to Make and Use Natural Dyes”; Jenny Dean; Hachette UK, 1999
“Wild Textiles, Grown, Foraged, Found”; Alice Fox; Batsford, 2022
“Harvesting Color, How To Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes”; Rebecca Burgess; Artisan, NY, 2011

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Material as Story, Culture and Worldview

“Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meanings of Traditional Craft”; Alexander Langlands; WW Norton, 2019
“Threads of Life, A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle”; Clare Hunter; Sceptre, 2020
“All Art is Ecological”; Timothy Morton; Penguin Classic, 2021
“Unity & Diversity, Canada Guest Pavilion”; Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2009

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Memoirs of Making and Wool Work

“Unraveling, What I learned about life while shearing sheep, dyeing wool, and making the world’s ugliest sweater”; Peggy Orenstein; Harper Collins, 2023
“A Symphony for the Sheep”; C.M. Millen, Illus. by Mary Azarian; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1996