FABRIC by Victoria Finlay - audiobook extract
b"Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and completing the trilogy of books which began with her first bestseller Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox.\\n\\nHow is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?\\n\\nWhy is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town?\\n\\nHow is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe?\\n\\nWhat is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny?\\n\\nIn Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it.\\n\\nShe beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama\\u2014where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.\\n\\nShe began her research just after the deaths of both her parents\\u2014and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. The book became her journey through grief and recovery. It is her own patchwork."