The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St. Clair
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
Kassia St. Clair
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
...a thematic history of fabrics by design and culture writer Kassia St Clair who points out that the world’s earliest fabrics were made by human hand 34,000 years ago.
...[a] charming and informative history of textiles, which takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear, from ruffs to spacesuits.
The history of ‘women’s work’ being devalued is very much a part of textile history.
Ms. St. Clair’s chapter on [the] Norsemen is a finely balanced mixture of adventure story and technical description.
... offers an eclectic take on how humans have developed fabric, from the first known flax fibers found in a cave in Georgia, spun from the insides of plants and dating at around 32,000 years ago, to the spacesuits made from synthetic materials created in the past 100 years.
This is a fascinating look at one of those everyday things many of us take for granted: fabric. Instead of tackling fabric’s entire history, St. Clair...skips across centuries and around the world, sharing accessible and telling stories about the development, production, and myriad uses of fabric.
This fascinating selection of '13 very different stories' about textiles 'help illustrate the vastness of their significance,' restoring them to their rightful place as a central human technology.
Journalist St. Clair...focuses her spirited, illuminating cultural history on essential fibers that have been spun, knitted, and woven throughout time.