The Golden 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 : Ewan Clayton
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024721
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Ewan Clayton and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty–first–century users of desktop computers, the story of writing is the story of human civilization itself. Calligraphy expert Ewan Clayton traces the history of an invention which—ever since our ancestors made the transition from a nomadic to an agrarian way of life in the eighth century BC—has been the method of codification and dissemination of ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political progress. He explores the social and cultural impact of, among other stages, the invention of the alphabet; the replacement of the papyrus scroll with the codex in the late Roman period; the perfecting of printing using moveable type in the fifteenth century and the ensuing spread of literacy; the industrialization of printing during the Industrial Revolution; the impact of artistic Modernism on the written word in the early twentieth century—and of the digital switchover at the century's close. The Golden Thread also raises issues of urgent interest for a society living in an era of unprecedented change to the tools and technologies of written communication. Chief among these is the fundamental question: "What does it mean to be literate in the early twenty–first century?" The book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who is inquisitive not just about the centrality of writing in the history of humanity, but also about its future; it is sure to appeal to lovers of language, books and cultural history.

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 : Ken Butti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714527307
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Golden Thread written by Ken Butti and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ann Copeland
Publisher : Goose Lane Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780864921598
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Ann Copeland and published by Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 1990 Governor General's Award, The Golden Thread is a collection of linked stories that introduce readers to the memorable Sister Claire Delaney.

Author : Bruce Meyer
Publisher : HarperAudio
ISBN 13 : 9780002000338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Bruce Meyer and published by HarperAudio. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rupert Cross
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521214056
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread of the English Criminal Law written by Rupert Cross and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976-10-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Nash
Publisher : Banner of Truth
ISBN 13 : 9780843920758
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Jean Nash and published by Banner of Truth. This book was released on 1984-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilio Carballido
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756003
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread and Other Plays written by Emilio Carballido and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilio Carballido (1925–2008) was one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater. By his mid-forties he had already produced an impressive body of works in two very different veins. On the one hand, he mastered the techniques of the "well-made play." On the other, he developed a richly rewarding vein of fantasy, sometimes poetic, sometimes comic, sometimes macabre—and sometimes all three. The plays in this volume are in the latter vein, ranging from surrealist farce in "The Intermediate Zone" to the grotesqueries of "The Time and the Place," from tragicomedy in "Theseus" to the dreamlike permutations of "The Golden Thread." But even at his most fantastic, Carballido never loses his remarkable gift for characterization: his peevish Minotaur, his raffish Nahual (were-jaguar) are wholly believable monsters.

Author : Suzy McKee Charnas
Publisher : Starfire
ISBN 13 : 9780553285536
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by Suzy McKee Charnas and published by Starfire. This book was released on 1990 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bosanka, an alien witch from another world, wants Valentine, a New York City teenager, to use her magical powers to help Bosanka return home.