Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric, Hardcover by Pastoureau, Michel; Gladding, Jody (TRN), ISBN 0231123663, ISBN-13 9780231123662, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

A specialist in medieval heraldry, Pastoureau (history of western symbols, Ecole Pratique des Hautes +tudes, Sorbonne) began noticing a long time ago that in medieval documents, figures wearing striped clothes were, in one way or another, negative figures. He starts his account with the 13th century, chronicles the shift from horizontal to vertical and back between the 16th and 19th, and brings the story up through the 20th. Etoffe du Diable was published in 1991 by Editions du Seuil. The translation is by poet and author Jody Gladding Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()