The Textile Trilogy covers all the 19th century and presents the craft village as a compelling model for us to emulate, while we are looking around to retrieve elements of our recent past before the Petroleum Age jettisoned our future on this planet. Milan Kundera has said that the place of history in novels is the take us back to contemplate what we abandoned in the past, "in that vast cemetery of forgetting." Industry moved forward with wind and water Now we have solar! The agricultural craft village handed down unique crafts from generation to generation. When one observes the revival of small villages in western New York and PA right now, one can see the vibrancy of these locations models for rebuilding and reimagining our lives before petroleum. Of course we can keep the things that were discovered after the 19th century, like antibiotics. In the last half century, we can see how this revival of watershed and fibershed-based ways-of-life--natural childbirth, organic foods and beverages, many grown in place, natural dyes and medicines--signal a shift in our thinking, a move away from mass markets to local, a shift back to 19th c. practices and toward community The Textile Trilogy first shows the losses we suffered as humans in the 19th century and celebrates an outstanding gain: the internatiuonal women's movement we cried from the native tribes who sequestered matrilineality, gender equity, on this continent and still practice it today!