Worn poetry Featuring 111 individual artworks gathered

Featuring 111 individual artworks gathered around eight themes

Enrico Schiffini

It also highlights the museum’s long-forgotten Latvian Collection

occupy increasing amounts of what has been fertile farmland

Metropolitan Museum

Worn poetry Featuring 111 individual artworks gatheredIn 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,