Kassia St Clair
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"The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet...
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Book Authority • 36 Best Textile Design eBooks of All Time
A briskly told, 30,000-year history of textiles that "will make you rethink your relationship with fabric" (Elle Decoration).
From colorful threads found on the floor of an ancient Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that fueled the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread illuminates the myriad and fascinating histories behind the cloths
...3) The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris?the Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
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The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment--a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution.