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Virginia Postrel
Personal blog · vpostrel.comcultureeconomics
Virginia Postrel's personal blog at vpostrel.com covers culture and economics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Virginia Postrel's site for The Fabric of Civilization, a book on the history of clothing and textiles. Her site is also listed among well-designed personal blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Official website of Virginia Postrel, writer, author, curator...
What Hacker News says?
Some links I've saved. That said, there's no accounting for taste: https://tylr.fun/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440123 https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petr... https://vpostrel.com/ https://h3rald.com/ https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/boring/ http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html https://moxie.org/stories.html https://trevorklee.com/my-terrible-plan-for-reducing-opioid-...…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted Pure Creative Joy (1996) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother interesting exploration of this is The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel ( https://vpostrel.com/the-fabric-of-civilization ). Her first chapter talks about how one of the overlooked innovations of the Stone Age was that twine needed to be created to actually secure the stone tool head to a wooden shaft. After that she discusses the enormous amounts of labor required to turn raw materials into thread…
Comment linking /the-fabric-of-civilization
on “My Search for the Origins of Clothing”