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Elane Coyne Galleries (Contemporary Crafts), 45 Bromfield Street, Boston: "Modern Trends in Leatherwork," including leather dinette sets, wide-screen TVs, and radar units...
Nautical Knotter. To purists, the closeness of the knots is far less important than the idea of making it oneself, an urge that is not limited to macramé. Knitting, leatherwork and fancy needlework are all in vogue. Tandy Leather, a handicraft chain store with outlets all over the country, says its leather sales have risen 51% this year. But macramé, seven centuries old, is what's In. Salty Stanley Postek, who owns Nautique Arts in Manhattan, is one of the first to offer macramé kits. These start at $5 and range up to $12 and higher...
Many are poor, unskilled laborers or craftsmen in specialized trades-rugmaking, jewelry, leatherwork-that have little need for their services. Few can find work, and bitterness among the North African Jews is growing stronger. Recently, a Jewish ex-policeman from Constantine stormed into the Marseille headquarters of the United Jewish Fund and demanded a decent suit of clothes so he could find work. "Do you know what I did today?" he roared in shame. "I sat down to lunch at a sidewalk cafe and left without paying." Many French Jews are less than happy to see their ranks swelled...
During her first struggling year in New York, ex-aristocrat Blavatsky lived at a lower East Side home for working women, picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...