Bernadette Hyland (aka Lipstick Socialist" reviews "Threads of Life A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle” by Clare Hunter. Bernadette says, " I n “Threads of Life” Clare Hunter has brought together many examples of women and men using the language of sewing to express their lives, their hopes and dreams. Clare is a banner maker, community textile artist and textile curator. This is a fascinating history of sewing which unravels an art that has been undermined and forgotten. As Clare reminds us the process of sewing “has become separate from the object, the maker from what they have made, and with it we have lost its emotional and social potency.” " lipsticksocialist.wordpress.com/