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BOOK
Threads of empire : a history of the world in twelve carpets
2025
Overview
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 this book, 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.
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Subject
ISBN
9781399614221, 9781399614238
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| NK2800 .A76 2025 | 1 | BOOK | WAITINSERT |
