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Weekend Reads: Threads of Life
What do Mary Queen of Scots, WWI soldiers and Hmong villagers have in common?
Thread – specifically embroidery.
In this wonderfully readable history, Clare Hunter tells tales of cloth and thread as subversive items and sewing as healing, political, and powerful.
*****
Sarah
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