Dagmar Schäfer, Giorgio Riello, and Luca Molà, eds., Threads of global desire: silk in the pre‐modern world (Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2018. pp. xviii+412. 2 figs. 50 illus. 6 maps. 10 tabs. ISBN 9781783272938 Hbk. £60/$99)