(OP) Unravelling the Silk Road: Travels and Textiles in Central Asia Online
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Veteran traveler and textile expert Chris Aslan explores the Silk, Wool and Cotton Roads of Central Asia
Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, of critical importance when houses made from wool enabled nomads to traverse the inhospitable winter steppes. Then there was the Cotton Road, marked by greed, colonialism and environmental disaster.
At this intersection of human history, fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks, life-giving felts and gossamer cottons. Chris Aslan, who has spent fifteen years living and working in the region, expertly unravels the strands of this tangled history and embroiders them with his own experiences of life in the heart of Asia.
About the Author
Chris Aslan has traveled widely in Central Asia, establishing a silk carpet workshop in the desert oasis of Khiva, working with nomadic yak herders in the high Pamirs, and joining local people picking cotton. His previous book was A Carpet Ride to Khiva (2010), also published by Icon. He lives in Cambridge.
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