Thirty genuinely true, cross-checked facts about cloth, craft and the making of things — spanning Fibres & Fabrics, The Loom & the Machine, Dyes & Colour, Words from the Workshop, Indian Textiles, Craft & Materials, Clothing Oddities and Making & Unmaking. Inside: why the first programmable machine in history was a loom — and why cloth is literally data, why the paisley pattern is not Scottish at all, and why the strongest fibre in nature cannot be farmed because its makers eat each other. No myths, no filler — every fact verified against independent sources.