Golden Thread. How cloth changed history
14.99 €
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Golden Thread. How cloth changed history
14.99 €
Look around you! Fabrics surround us from birth and accompany us throughout our lives. Perhaps you are sitting on a soft seat in a train or subway car. You are wearing a wool sweater or a chintz shirt. Or maybe you are lying in bed on cozy cotton sheets, wrapped in a warm plaid? All of these are made of cloth - woven, felted or knitted.
However, with all the importance of fabrics, few people think about what significance they represent for us and how tiny fibers have influenced history and humanity as a whole. Fabrics - natural and man-made - have changed, defined, moved forward and shaped the world we live in. Allowed us to create incredible things and survive in inhumane conditions. And this book will tell you how it happened, and why: from the colorful threads more than 30,000 years old found on the floor of a cave in Georgia to the true meaning of the linen covers of Tutankhamun's mummy, from the Great Silk Road to the woolen sails that helped the Vikings reach the Americas 700 years before Columbus, from the opulent lace collars that infuriated the Puritans to the Indian calicoes and chintzes that drove the Industrial Revolution.
However, with all the importance of fabrics, few people think about what significance they represent for us and how tiny fibers have influenced history and humanity as a whole. Fabrics - natural and man-made - have changed, defined, moved forward and shaped the world we live in. Allowed us to create incredible things and survive in inhumane conditions. And this book will tell you how it happened, and why: from the colorful threads more than 30,000 years old found on the floor of a cave in Georgia to the true meaning of the linen covers of Tutankhamun's mummy, from the Great Silk Road to the woolen sails that helped the Vikings reach the Americas 700 years before Columbus, from the opulent lace collars that infuriated the Puritans to the Indian calicoes and chintzes that drove the Industrial Revolution.
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