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Author_Victoria Finlay
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Product details
- ISBN 9781781257074
- Weight: 436g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Subtle, compendious and rich' - James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
'Dazzling ... Finlay's adventures, vividly recounted, make enthralling reading ... This book is equally an inspiration and an education' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
'A gorgeous adventure through the history of cloth' - Stylist
The Sunday Times best paperbacks of 2022
Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe in a vibrant exploration of cloth through the ages. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama. And through it all she uncovers the hidden histories of fabric: how and why people have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols of it
Interlaced with Victoria's own story of grief and recovery, Fabric is a lush patchwork of travel, history, memoir and culture - an unforgettable look into how we have made fabric, and how it has made us.
Victoria Finlay is the critically acclaimed author of Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox. She studied social anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Later, as well as working as arts editor of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and researching her four books, she also spent many years working for an international environment charity. She lives near Bath.
