Threads of Life 

By: Clare Hunter 

Paperback

Published: First published in 2019, this edition published in 2020

ISBN: 9781473687936

A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

The Sunday Times Bestseller

Mentioned on the podcast HapticandHue 

Winner of the Saltire First Book of the Year. 

Community textile artist, banner-maker and textile curator Clare Hunter provides us with an eloquent book about history through the language of sewing.   

Threads of Life explores the impact and importance of what can be accomplish with a needle and thread. From political propaganda in medieval France to a family attic in Scotland, Hunter portrays how men and women have used the art of sewing to tell their stories of identity, protest, memory and politics.