
Threads of Life
A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
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Narrated by:
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Siobhan Redmond
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By:
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Clare Hunter
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard.
From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.
Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents - from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland - to celebrate the age-old, universal, and underexplored beauty and power of sewing. Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story.
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Brilliant perspective and delivery
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Textile bucket list.
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The narrator's perfectly paced performance is easy listening.
The narration faded toward the end but that may have been my device.
If you sew you know
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Fantastic
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A Moving History of Needlework
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Love!
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Yes, anything associated with women has historically been sneered at by men, or at least viewed as lesser, but you don’t have to beat it like a dead horse. And there are long passages that are just dry recitations of facts.
I found The Fabric of Civilization much more interesting. While everyone is familiar with the Fibonacci sequence, for example, of far greater significance is the fact that as the young son of a cloth buyer, he recognized the potential of Arabic numerals and zero for the west and promoted them upon his return, ultimately writing a book about their use. Also in The Fabric of Civilization, I learned that alchemy and the origins of chemistry had more to do with replicating costly dyes than turning lead into gold.
It baffles me that these two books have the same rating.
The Fabric of Civilization is much better, IMHO.
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