How Long to Read The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

How Long Does it Take to Read The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 19 minutes to read The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A Sunday Times (UK) Book of the Year Shortlisted • Society of Authors' Somerset Maugham Award A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week The best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through thirteen charismatic episodes. From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that sparked the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread weaves an illuminating story of human ingenuity. Design journalist Kassia St. Clair guides us through the technological advancements and cultural customs that would redefi ne human civilization—from the fabric that allowed mankind to achieve extraordinary things (traverse the oceans and shatter athletic records) and survive in unlikely places (outer space and the South Pole). She peoples her story with a motley cast of characters, including Xiling, the ancient Chinese empress credited with inventing silk, to Richard the Lionhearted and Bing Crosby. Offering insights into the economic and social dimensions of clothmaking—and countering the enduring, often demeaning, association of textiles as “merely women’s work”—The Golden Thread offers an alternative guide to our past, present, and future.

How long is The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History?

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair is 368 pages long, and a total of 94,944 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 116% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 38 minutes to read The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History aloud.

What Reading Level is The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History?

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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