Clare Hunter
Autor de Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
Sobre El Autor
Clare Hunter has sewn since she was a child. She has been a banner maker, community textile artist, and textile curator for more than twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. She was a recipient of a Creative Scotland Award in 2016. She lives near Stirling in mostrar más Scotland. mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Scotland
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Glasgow, Scotland
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 368
- Popularidad
- #65,433
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 14
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 1
On the other hand, there were fantastic discussions at the start of the book on the Bayeux Tapestry, on protest handkerchiefs worn to remember massacred sons, etc. But I longed for more information about non-European history- after all, this is touted as “the history of the world through the eye of a needle”. There are some token examples of stitching from Asia and India and an occasional Australian aboriginal mention, but these areas are particularly skimpy and of course the European areas are almost too thick.
It might have been better to call this European History through the eye of a needle...
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