Quilts: The Fabric of War 1760-1900 Mdou Moctar Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people

Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children

the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s

Each film is a diamond hard classic

Buried somewhere in the woman's past

Quilts: The Fabric of War 1760-1900 Mdou Moctar Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing peopleWhat extraordinary history these quilts tell us: from Mozart, at the age of eight playing the piano for George III, to a quilt copied from the altarpiece of Luther's church in Wittenberg, to the history of the release of Venice from Austria to become part of Italy. What binds all these patchworks together is they were made by a technique called intarsia (which is like marquetry in wood). They are made out of a broadcloth, a heavy woollen cloth always