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Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong

• Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
• Dorothy Armstrong
• Page: 320
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781250321442
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world’s most fascinating carpets. Dorothy Armstrong’s Threads of Empire is a spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. 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, fibers from domestic animals, and the millennia-old skills of interweaving warps, wefts and knots. In Threads of Empire, 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. She shows why the world’s powerful were drawn to them, but also asks what was happening in the weavers’ lives, and how they were affected by events in the world outside their tent, village or workshop. In its wide-ranging examination of these dazzling objects, from the 5th century BCE contents of the tombs of Scythian chieftains, to the carpets under the boots of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the 1945 Yalta Peace Conference, Threads of Empire uncovers a new, hitherto hidden past right beneath our feet.

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'I am much enjoying this absorbing history of the world through the stories of twelve notable carpets. It tells engrossing tales of emperors, shahs, sultans .
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Threads of Empire is her first book. Contributor: Dorothy Armstrong; Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Publisher: Orion Publishing Co; Release .
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Her current book is Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) This talk celebrates the display of two new .
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power.
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
In Threads of Empire, Dorothy Armstrong tells the histories of some of the world's most fascinating carpets, exploring how these textiles came into being then .
Threads of Empire by Dorothy Armstrong - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets. Beautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow power.
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpetsBeautiful, sensuous, and enigmatic, great carpets follow .
Threads of Empire : A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
Carpet specialist Dorothy Armstrong tells the stories surrounding twelve of the world's most fascinating carpets.Dorothy Armstrong's Threads .

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