Kassia St Clair

The Golden Thread

How Fabric Changed History

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Produktbeschreibung

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / John Murray
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 599208
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781473659056
• ISBN-10: 1473659051
• Artikelnr.: 55331260

Autorenporträt

Kassia St Clair studied the history of women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth century at Bristol and Oxford. She has since written about design and culture for the Economist, House & Garden, TLS, Quartz and New Statesman, and has had a column about colour in Elle Decoration since 2013. Her first book The Secret Lives of Colour was a top-ten bestseller, a Radio 4 Book of the Week and has been translated into over a dozen languages; her second, The Golden Thread, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Award. She lives in London. www.kassiastclair.com

Rezensionen

A history of fabric might not sound immediately exciting, but St Clair's book is a refreshing treat, every page bursting with surprising insights. Clothing, she argues, is central to history, from myths and legends to trade and technology. The threads woven by the Greek Fates, the bandages that wrapped Egyptian mummies, the wool that made medieval England rich, the lace in Vermeer's paintings : it all makes for a smart and entertaining historical tapestry SUNDAY TIMES, History Book of the Year 20181125