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  title info:
    title: Threads of empire
    sub title: a history of the world in twelve carpets
  name:
    name part: Armstrong, Dorothy
    name part: (Writer on carpets)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Informational works.
  genre: Documents d'information.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world's most fascinating carpets. Dorothy Armstrong's Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power. Emperors, shahs, sultans and samurai crave them as symbols of earthly domination. Shamans and priests desire them to evoke the spiritual realm. The world's 1% hunger after them as displays of extreme status. And yet these seductive objects are made by poor and illiterate weavers, using the most basic materials and crafts; hedgerow plants for dyes, fibers from domestic animals, and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps, wefts and knots. In Threads of Empire, Armstrong tells the histories of some of the world's most fascinating carpets, exploring how these textiles came into being then were transformed as they moved across geography and time in the slipstream of the great. She shows why the world's powerful were drawn to them, but also asks what was happening in the weavers' lives, and how they were affected by events in the world outside their tent, village or workshop. In its wide-ranging examination of these dazzling objects, from the 5th century BCE contents of the tombs of Scythian chieftains, to the carpets under the boots of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the 1945 Yalta Peace Conference, Threads of Empire uncovers a new, hitherto hidden past right beneath our feet"--
  table of contents: Chieftain -- Sultan -- Shahenshah -- Samurai -- Priest -- Tycoon -- Goddess -- Hegemon -- Sahib -- Trickster -- Migrant -- Lost -- Epilogue: the invisible weaver.
  target audience: adult
  note: Dorothy Armstrong.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Carpets
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: World history
  subject:
    topic: Histoire universelle
  classification: NK2800 .A76 2025
  classification: 746.79
  identifier: 9781250321435
  identifier: 1250321433
  identifier: 9781250321442
  identifier: 2024056157
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250122
    record change date: 20250804223535.4
    record identifier: in00005656164
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng