
The Golden Thread
How Fabric Changed History
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Narrated by:
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Helen Johns
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By:
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Kassia St. Clair
The best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through 13 charismatic episodes.
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 redefine 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.
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Thank you Kassia St. Clair. I wish everyone could read this book and end this fast fashion nonsense for good.
So good, I'm listening to it again
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Fascinating mixture of history and fiber/textile facts
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The narration was great!!
Great book!
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Learned a lot
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A truly fascinating detailed account!!!
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I did have one quibble with the narrator. She didn't always research the pronunciation of things. The one that bothered me the most was in the section on sports fabrics, she mispronounced Nike. Not just once but Many, Many times. It is "NI-kEy" not "Nik." I feel like someone in the production chain should have caught that even if the narrator had never heard of the incredibly famous sportswear brand.
Great book, okay narration
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A fascinating study
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So interesting
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A Fascinating nonfiction book!
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Something we all should know!
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