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Keaney sings a melody from the Star Wars soundtrack as he pulls a cloth campaign banner from the car and unrolls it at the corner of Cambridge and Beacon Streets...
...what of the design itself? The plan is to find the oldest tree near the center of the campus; Mingwei and his administrative allies in the Office for the Arts are already eyeing the grove near the chapel in the Yard. He wants to “design cloth that sort of coils out, like this”—he draws a widening spiral in the air with a finger—“like an eddy...
...bomb. In the week following the Bali explosion that killed nearly 200, Ramlah Yasin sat on the floor of an office at a shuttered factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia...
...modest brown and green construction that Ông Ngoai had built himself. He weaved chutes of bamboo together for the walls; he bound thatch together for the roof. The floor was smoothed dirt covered by scratchy mats and the bed was flattened bamboo draped with scraps of cloth. A black and white picture of him sat on the altar to the left of his bed, his image blurred by burning incense, his dark eyes staring out at my sister and me. He had a fat nose that looked like a chicken’s foot. His wide, prominent cheekbones...
...Traditional Cirebon abound with wearable art that sells for a tiny fraction of the prices tourists pay in Bali or Jakarta, including silk shawls so delicate they are virtually transparent. Both stores welcome visitors to adjoining workshops to watch batiks slowly take form. Patterns are drawn or stamped on cloth using melted wax. Dyes are applied, the waxed areas resist the new color and retain their original hue. The process is repeated dozens of times, creating complex, colorful designs...