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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair

• The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
• Kassia St. Clair
• Page: 368
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781631496363
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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A Sunday Times (UK) Book of the Year Shortlisted • Society of Authors' Somerset Maugham Award A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through thirteen charismatic episodes. From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefi ne human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole). She peoples her story with a motley cast of characters, including Xiling, the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk, to Richard the Lionhearted and Bing Crosby. Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking—and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as “merely women’s work”—The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future.

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A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **. 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE  Review of 'The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History' by
Fabrics. For most of us, these woven and knitted materials are essential to daily life. But it's easy to take fabrics for granted. This impressive and  The Golden Thread : How fabric changed history - The Arts Society
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Editorial Reviews. Review. “Fascinating. Written in elegant prose, this tour of textile history will draw in readers interested in human evolution and culture.” Editions of The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by
Editions for The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History: 1473659035 ( Hardcover published in 2018), 1631494805 (Hardcover published  Lauren's review of The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Really makes you think about so called “eco” fabrics like bamboo or rayon, and the processes actually involved. Time to make more ethical

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