Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

This rich narrative shows how needlework has carried stories of resistance, love, and memory across centuries.

“An astonishing feat, this patchwork of history, culture, and politics . . . takes us from Saxon England to colonized African tribes, Palestinian villages, rural China and the cramped homes of American slaves.” ―Sunday Times (London)

Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. It’s human history told from a ...