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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.

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.