The golden thread : how fabric changed history /
All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of Tutankhamun's mummy actually meant, from the Silk Roads to the woollen sails that helped the Vikings reach America 700 years before Columbus, from the lac...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Fibers in the cave
- Dead men's shrouds
- Gifts and horses
- Cities that silk built
- Surf dragons
- A king's ransom
- Diamonds and the ruff
- Solomon's coats
- Layering in extremis
- Workers in the factory
- Under pressure
- Harder, better, faster, stronger
- The golden cape
- Golden threads.