Interested in learning more about histories, narratives, and personal experiences connected to textiles and fiber-based objects and their makers? Join a Textile Center Book Club!

All are welcome. This program is free, but space is limited, so registration is required.

UPCOMING BOOK CLUBS

Book Club: The Secret Lives of Color

“The Secret Lives of Color“ by Kassia St. Clair

5 Wednesday meet-ups, from 11 am – 12 pm
in the Textile Center Library

January 21: Introduction, Chapters 1-2
February 4: Chapters 3-4
February 18: Chapters 5-6
March 4: Chapters 7-9
March 18: Chapters 10-11

About the book:

The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes, and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso’s blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history.

In this book, Kassia St. Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colors and where they come from (whether Van Gogh’s chrome yellow sunflowers or punk’s fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilization. Across fashion and politics, art and war, the secret lives of color tell the vivid story of our culture.

About the author:

Kassia St. Clair is an acclaimed author and storyteller and the UK’s best selling historian under 40. She specialises in telling illuminating stories about the overlooked and the everyday.

Kassia has sold hundreds of thousands of books globally and is best known for ‘The Secret Lives of Color’, which was a Sunday Times top-ten bestseller, Radio 4?s Book of the Week and has been translated into over 20 languages. Her other books include ‘The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History’, ‘The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the 20th Century’ and ‘Liberty: Design. Pattern. Color’.