Author: Bruce Meyer
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780002000338
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Author: Kassia St. Clair
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496360
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631496360
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
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.
Golden Threads
Author: Suzanne Del Rizzo
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771473606
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beloved toy fox becomes lost, tattered, repaired, and loved for his imperfections
Publisher: Owlkids
ISBN: 9781771473606
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A beloved toy fox becomes lost, tattered, repaired, and loved for his imperfections
The Golden Thread
Author: Bruce Meyer
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780002000338
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: HarperAudio
ISBN: 9780002000338
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Golden Thread ....
Author: Philo Melvin Buck
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Thread
Author: Philo Melvin Buck (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Thread
Author: Téa Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781038906540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781038906540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Thread
Author: Ann Copeland
Publisher: New York : Viking
ISBN: 9780670829774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
These eleven stories portray life behind convent walls as the life of Claire Delaney unfolds. Her development from an earnest novice to a nun and teacher explores the themes of friendship, loneliness, ambition, and personal faith.
Publisher: New York : Viking
ISBN: 9780670829774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
These eleven stories portray life behind convent walls as the life of Claire Delaney unfolds. Her development from an earnest novice to a nun and teacher explores the themes of friendship, loneliness, ambition, and personal faith.
The golden Thread
The Golden Thread
Author: Amali Gunasekera
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780375991
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780375991
Category : Poetry, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Golden Thread
Author: Ann Copeland
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780006179719
Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780006179719
Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description