The Unwound Yarn: Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt

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The Unwound Yarn : Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt. / Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Chiara Serena.

2018.

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Harvard

Spinazzi-Lucchesi, CS 2018, The Unwound Yarn: Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-232-1

APA

Spinazzi-Lucchesi, C. S. (2018). The Unwound Yarn: Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-232-1

Vancouver

Spinazzi-Lucchesi CS. The Unwound Yarn: Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt. 2018. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-232-1

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Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Chiara Serena. / The Unwound Yarn : Birth and Development of Textile Tools Between Levant and Egypt. 2018.

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