Worn poetry The complexity of the undertaking

The complexity of the undertaking is embraced through a system of keywords

Metropolitan Museum

this issue hits the pavement and follows the threads that stitch Manhattan’s quilted coffee culture

Pasolini scholar and professor at SUNY Stony Brook

Enrico Schiffini

Worn poetry The complexity of the undertakingIn this panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five storiesLinen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Woolabout the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis XIV to the labor camps in modern day Chinese occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed with lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits,