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Crowds in U.S. cities have been equally curious about the traveling Chinese show. Western eyes are delighted by fine Peking porcelain vases, trays made of glowing cinnebar lacquer and Ching dynasty emperors' robes of embroidered yellow silk as thin as a breath of air. Visitors have also been intrigued by a large dragon vase that is said to be able to determine the severity of an earthquake by the way a set of balls rolls from the dragon's mouth into those of the eight toads below...
...needlework techniques, studied and carried out by Chicago's many co-workers at a high level of technical skill-pieced or appliqued quilting, trapunto, flame stitch, crewelwork, embroidery with pearls and beads, stumpwork, petit point and even the intricate and demanding form of needlework with composite materials (silk floss, gold and silver thread, jewels) known in the 13th and 14th centuries as "English work," opus anglica-num. Each runner is fashioned from materials that are painstakingly appropriate to the woman being commemorated. For Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide and interpreter, hand-tanned deerskins are stitched together...
...exotic creations of Jordan Marsh and Bloomingdales, images of Asian peoples and cultures are being invented, manipulated, and presented by non-Asians for their own profit and entertainment. Thus, the Suzie Wong stereotype of Asian women as prostitutes is being exploited by the fashion industry into seductive Oriental silk evening wear...
Women must wear suits or at least a jacket in the male business world, but Feidorak said those shorter jackets, those neat ascots, and the silk shirts can add a little feminine mystique to the austere society of supply and demand...
...social essence, suggesting what one can only call a poetry of ownership. His marriage portrait of William and Elizabeth Hallett, 1785, usually known as The Morning Walk, is one of these: two peach-skinned 21-year-olds, dressed to the nines in their formal finery of velvet, taffeta, filmy silk and crisp ribbons, adored by the animal kingdom in the shape of a fluffy white dog (whose exuberant coat mimicks the finesse of his mistress's clothes), strolling in their idealized park. Its rhymes between nature and culture-particularly in the similarity between Gainsborough's handling...