Threads of Empire
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A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories
of twelve carpetsBeautiful, 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.
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W&N ,
Dorothy Armstrong
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W&N,
Dorothy Armstrong
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Slovart
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