The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingen…

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