Melanie’s Reviews > Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle > Status Update

Every time I pick up this book, I read something that utterly blows my mind - something I never would have thought of. For example, when Palestinian embroiderers were displaced after 1948, their individual area/tribal embroidery designs began to be lost -- but since then, they have begun to create new patterns that represent Palestinians as one people, not many disparate groups. Just typing this brings me to tears .