Monique Levi-Strauss: Cashmere: A French Passion — 1800-1880
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl could be passed through a finger ring. Exquisite and expensive, by the nineteenth century these shawls were highly sought-after in France; enterprising French manufacturers soon saw that there…