The golden thread : how fabric changed history /
"All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of Tutankhamun's mummy actually meant; from the Silk Roads to the woollen sails that helped the Vikings reach America 700 years before Columbus; from t...
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London :
John Murray (Publishers),
2019
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Sumário:
- Fibres in the cave
- Dead men's shrouds
- Gifts and horses
- Cities that silk built
- Surf dragons
- A king's ransom
- Diamonds and the ruff
- Solomon's coats
- Layering in extremis
- Workers in the factory
- Under pressure
- Harder, better, faster, stronger
- The golden cape
- Golden threads.