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Why so many editions of this on Litsy? Argh.

It's an interesting read, focusing on the mummies found in an area salty desert, in Chinese territory. The mummies themselves look Caucasian and were buried with textile grave goods, all surprisingly and beautifully preserved by the salty desert. The book discusses the mummies links with European culture and technology, with a lot of focus on those textiles. It's a fascinating and convincing approach.

This is actually to a very large degree about the textiles buried with mummies from this area. Interesting stuff, and especially for it to crop up unexpectedly just while I'm on a fabric/embroidery reading spree.

This pic is unrelated, it's just cute -- Breakfast sat on my shoulder today, probably from when we were watching the Scotland-Wales game. #BunniesofLitsy

an enjoyable read. while i was initially disappointed that the observations were from a museum trip rather than excavation or lab conservation work, the amount of research and information in later chapters more than made up for it. barber visits a distant museum in central asia to examine rare mummies with even more rare surviving textiles.