Books in the Handicrafts through World History series

Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life.

Metalworking Through History provides a comprehensive, historic overview of the subject of metalworking while exploring it within its cultural context. As a broad encyclopedia of metalworking, it allows the reader to view the different societies and periods that produced work in this medium as part of a global, interrelated practice.