Word: appliqueed
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LOCAL CRAFT WORK. Since such items are normally not heavily taxed in the country of origin, they are usually not a bargain at the airport. Nevertheless, anyone who forgot to get something for Aunt Minnie can airport-shop for Indian applique work in Panama ($8), Welsh tapestry cloth in London...
Ideological Warriors. The variety is enormous, from tank top through the classic skivvy T shirt to the long-sleeved variety favored by snowbound North Dakota farmers. Some models sport one red sleeve and one blue, joined by a rainbowed trunk. Some stop fetchingly just above the navel, others stretch down...
Calico Folklore. Quilling's great era in America ran from 1750 to 1870, when the Industrial Revolution put an end to the need for home manufacture. The Hanoverian kings of England had placed strict embargoes and taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta...
Meanwhile in Vienna bronze casters and workmen of the firm of Julius Maschner & Son were working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to...
Included in the collection are garments, weapons, idols, fetishes, and other utensils, the whole giving a picture highly representative of the life of the tribe. Several women's dresses made of fish-skins and decorated with skillful applique work are perhaps the most interesting pieces of all.