Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Its human history told from a new, surprising perspective.

This is a globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry to the pink pussyhats of the Womens March, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.

Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continentsfrom medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotlandto celebrate the age-old, universal, and underexplored beauty and power of sewing.