For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out o

Early modern India was an economic core region producing manifold textiles for export. During the sixteenth century a new customer entered the stage and expande

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This glorious book is filled to the brim with a wide ranging history of textiles and 350 superb illustrations drawn from many countries and sources vestments an