Gold Thread

Author : Kassia St. Clair
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631496360
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History written by Kassia St. Clair and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sunday Times (UK) Book of the Year Shortlisted • Society of Authors' Somerset Maugham Award A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through thirteen charismatic episodes. From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefi ne human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole). She peoples her story with a motley cast of characters, including Xiling, the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk, to Richard the Lionhearted and Bing Crosby. Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking—and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as “merely women’s work”—The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future.

Author : Noman MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752412275
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Thread written by Noman MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Gold Thread by Noman MacLeod

Author : Norman Macleod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Thread written by Norman Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Del Rizzo
Publisher : Owlkids
ISBN 13 : 9781771473606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Threads written by Suzanne Del Rizzo and published by Owlkids. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved toy fox becomes lost, tattered, repaired, and loved for his imperfections

Author : William Raeper
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498283144
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Thread written by William Raeper and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both children's literature and fantasy literature have become established as genre for critical study in recent years, especially in the United States. As one of the outstanding children's authors of the nineteenth century and a pioneer of fantasy writing, MacDonald has become the focus of increased attention. As an acknowledged influence on many authors who came after him--authors such as E. Nesbit, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and T. S. Eliot--MacDonald is one of the rare writers whose work is a starting point for evaluating the achievements of others. New forms of critical theory--Jungian, psychoanalytic, and feminist--turning towards the exploration of sexuality and the fantastic have also found fitting subjects in MacDonald's texts. This volume studies these developments and also the growing acknowledgment that MacDonald was a Scottish writer and a Victorian. His enduring works have been his children's books At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, and the fairy tales of The Golden Key. His two adult fantasy novels, Phantasties and Lilith, are now recognized as classics of their kind.

Author : Catherine Black
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 1550713418
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hard Gold Thread written by Catherine Black and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, her second book, Catherine Black weaves together the wonder, heartache, and 'unlovely beauty' of a youth that is by turns charmed and disquieting. Straddling genres of memoir, prose, and poetry, A Hard Gold Thread delights in the layering of keenly observed moments, in the subtle play of remembering and forgetting, and in the shift in perspective brought to bear on memory as it is transmuted by time. Reverent, sensitively rendered, and sometimes tongue in cheek, A Hard Gold Thread is an unconventional memoir inviting the reader into a meditation on the engulfing beauty of the world and the compulsion to turn away from it.

Author : Norman Macleod
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE GOLD THREAD and WEE DAVIE - two children's stories each with a moral written by Norman Macleod and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are two illustrated children’s stories, each with a moral, by Norman Macleod (1812 – 1872.) In THE GOLD THREAD "Prince Eric loses his way in the Hemlock Forest where a wicked robber king and his band of cutthroats and thieves live. The prince must learn the lessons of the Gold Thread if he is ever to return home to see his father, the good King Magnus, again. Through his failures and victories, he follows his gold thread through the forest. On his journey, he must turn aside temptation and enticements, of all kinds, and follow the Gold Thread whatever the danger. But what is the Gold Thread? Well you will have to download and read the story to find out! WEE DAVIE is a lovely story about how a child brought about an amazing change in the village into which he was born. He was the only child of William Thorburn, blacksmith, and of Jeanie, his wife. First, the “bonnie bairn” brought a change to his father and later to his mother as well. In time, his goodness and influence spread to his neighbours and then into the village itself. Yet, Wee Davie, the name by which he had been known since birth remained with him as he grew older. He had a knack for reconciling the village Tories and the more “radical elements” in the village whom it seemed had been at loggerheads ever since politics had been invented. Unexpectedly, one day “wee Davie” became ill and he began to refuse his food. His parents sat with him and nursed him day and night. “What ails Willie?” was the question villagers asked, to which no reply could be given. Not even the Doctor could save him and one beautiful morning in spring, with a bright blue sky, living air, springing grass, and singing birds, Wee Davie left our world. His passing left a large void in the fabric of village society and for years to come he was spoken about with love and affection. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Wee Davie, Gold Thread, Prince Eric, Hemlock Forest, wicked, robber king, cutthroats, thieves, return home, father, king, temptation, enticement, follow, William, Thorburn, Jeanie, curly blond, bonnie bairn, Scottish, Scotland, village, happiness, love, love, tolerance, forgiveness, understanding, influence, goodness, passing,

Author : John Henry Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by John Henry Gray and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman Macleod
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gold Thread; and, Wee Davie: Two Stories for the Young written by Norman Macleod and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gold Thread; and, Wee Davie: Two Stories for the Young" by Norman Macleod. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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