Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle /
Hunter, Clare,
Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle / Clare Hunter. - xi, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-306).
Beginning -- Unknown -- Power -- Frailty -- Captivity -- Identity -- Connection -- Protect -- Journey -- Protest -- Loss -- Community -- Place -- Value -- Art -- Work -- Voice -- Ending.
From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Hunter chronicles how identity, protest, memory, power, and politics can be told through the stories of needlework. She takes us over centuries and across continents to celebrate the age-old, universal, and under-explored beauty and power of sewing. -- adapted from jacket
9781419739538 1419739530
2019930880
Sewing--Social aspects--History.
Sewing--Political aspects--History.
Communication in art.
Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle / Clare Hunter. - xi, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-306).
Beginning -- Unknown -- Power -- Frailty -- Captivity -- Identity -- Connection -- Protect -- Journey -- Protest -- Loss -- Community -- Place -- Value -- Art -- Work -- Voice -- Ending.
From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Hunter chronicles how identity, protest, memory, power, and politics can be told through the stories of needlework. She takes us over centuries and across continents to celebrate the age-old, universal, and under-explored beauty and power of sewing. -- adapted from jacket
9781419739538 1419739530
2019930880
Sewing--Social aspects--History.
Sewing--Political aspects--History.
Communication in art.