Threads of Life A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle - Clare Hunter

Written by Clare Hunter
Read by Siobhan Hunter
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Threads of Life
Subtitle: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Author: Clare Hunter
Reader: Siobhan Hunter
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-04-06
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Duration: 12 hrs 30 mins
ISBN: 9781666103236
Subjects: History

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 703 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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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.