The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History - Couverture rigide

St Clair, Kassia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631494805 ISBN 13 : 9781631494802

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kassia St. Clair is a journalist and author who has written about design and culture for publications including the Economist, Elle, and the Times Literary Supplement. The author of The Secret Lives of Color, St. Clair lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631494805
• ISBN 13: 9781631494802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible