Dorothy Armstrong

Beneath Our Feet

Dorothy Armstrong of the Ashmolean Musem, Oxford, tells the histories of some of the world's most fascinating carpets, exploring how they came into being, then were transformed as they moved through peoples, geography and time. Why were the world's most powerful drawn to them? And what about the lives of the poor weavers who made them? From the carpets in 5th century BCE tombs of Scythian chieftains, to those under the boots of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta Peace Conference, Threads of Empire uncovers a hidden past right beneath our feet.

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  • Threads of Empire (Weidenfeld and Nicholson)
  • Wednesday, 12th March 2025
  • 4:30pm
  • Studio
  • £13.00

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