Download or read book Material Choices written by Roy W. Hamilton and published by Fowler Museum Textile. This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world awash in a global trade of industrially produced cottons and synthetic fabrics, it is easy to forget that all of the cloth needed in any community once had to be woven by hand and that much of it was made from bast (fibers found in plant stems) or leaf fibers. Material Choices features an unusual array of garments and other items made of these challenging fibers, exploring their significant use in the Pacific region where many bast and leaf fiber weaving traditions nearly became extinct in the mid-20th century but have now undergone a revival.