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Threads of Empire
- A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
Engelsk Hardback
Threads of Empire
- A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
Engelsk Hardback

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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, fibres from domestic animals, and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps, wefts and knots.

In Threads of Empire, Dorothy 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9781399614221
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1399614223
Udg. Dato:
27 feb 2025
Længde:
34mm
Bredde:
166mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato:
27 feb 2025
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