Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

STAFF RECOMMENDS   "Beautifully written to show the lives of the wealthy who commissioned them and the lives of the workers who made them, Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets is a rich overview of the history of humanity through twelve of the most fascinating carpets ever made." - Chelsea / Retail & e-Commerce Coordinator   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