Unravelling the Silk Road : Travels and Textiles in Central Asia - Christopher Alexander Crime as their rivalry comes to

as their rivalry comes to a shattering end

Of everything

It is both a love story and a lament

rebels who breathed new life into the movement which spawned some of the best poetry in English Literature

Unravelling the Silk Road : Travels and Textiles in Central Asia - Christopher Alexander Crime as their rivalry comes toThree 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