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| ISBN 978-1-4197-3953-8 |
Just finished Scottish author Clare Hunter's book, Threads of Life, subtitled A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle. In chapters with headings such as "Protest," "Identity," "Community," and "Loss," Hunter celebrates the stitch with personal, and political, reflections on everything from the Bayeux Tapestry to the AIDS quilt. Oddly, the book contains no images - not one - so I read it with my tablet alongside, to search for pictures. Only after finishing the book did it occur to me to visit Hunter's website, where, indeed, there are many (public domain I assume) images of some of the artifacts referenced in the book.