Needlework through History

Author: Catherine Amoroso Leslie
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0313335486

Needlework through History: An Encyclopedia (Handicrafts through World History)

Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Download Needlework through History: An Encyclopedia (Handicrafts through World History) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Needlework traditions are often associated with rituals and celebrations of life events. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life. Needlework techniques traveled with merchants and explorers, creating a legacy of cross-cultural exchange. Some techniques are virtually universal and others are limited to a small geographical area. Settlers brought traditions which were sometimes re-invented as indigenous arts. This volume of approximately 75 entries is a Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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