Name: Threads of Empire
SKU: SBV711066149
Availability: InStock

HISTORY

Threads of Empire

SKU:SBV711066149
Category:HISTORY

Free shipping on orders over $40!
Secure Payment: Guaranteed safe & secure checkout with encrypted protection.
Return within 30 days. Duties & taxes non-refundable.

Description
Reviews (0)

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.

Add a Review

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Products

Sale

Shopping Cart

Menu

Threads of Empire

Threads of Empire

Description

Reviews (0)

Related Products

A Short History of Russia

Sound tracks

The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge

Pantheon