Introduction: warping a folk history -- 1. Beginning in Africa -- 2. Constructing cloth and clothing in the antebellum South -- 3. Wearing antebellum clothing -- 4. Having footwear -- 5. Embellishing the head -- 6. Crowning the person -- 7. Clothing as the weft of a folk history -- App. I. Glossary of selected trade-cloth terms used by Europeans -- App. II. Annotated glossary of terms related to textile manufacture and clothing taken from the narratives -- App. III. Cloth dyes reported in the narratives.
