Golden thread. How the fabric has changed history

Look around! The fabrics surround us from birth and accompany us throughout life. Perhaps now you are sitting in a soft seat in a train or metro car. You will be wearing a woolen sweater or chintz shirt. Or maybe you lie in bed on cozy cotton sheets, wrapping yourself in a warm blanket? All this is made of the canvas - woven, felted or knitted. However, with all the importance of fabrics, few people think about what significance they represent for us and, how tiny fibers have influenced history and humanity as a whole. The fabrics - natural and artificial - changed, determined, moved forward the world in which we live, and gave it a form. They allowed them to create incredible things and survive in inhuman conditions.

And this book will tell you how it happened, and why:

• from bright threads, whose age is more than 30,000 years found on the floor of the caves in Georgia, to the true meaning the linen cover of the mummy of Tutankhamun.
• From the Great Silk Road to the woolen sails that helped the Vikings reach America 700 years before Columbus.
• From the lush lace collars who brought Puritan to the rage to Indian cranks and chintz, engines of the industrial revolution.