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New Mallet

I’ve been reading up on calendaring indigo dyed fabrics in this great book “Imprints on Cloth : 18 years of Field Research among the Miao People of Guizhou, China.” A common thread between the works of many different communities is a calendaring stage, where the fabric is pounded and smoothed with a big wooden mallet, [...]

Sponsored by : Nick Perez

Nick, I think this place would really thrive with you as their barker: Rocks here! Rocks fa sale! 2 bucks a pound, newborn’s worth of rocks, 15 dolla! 15 dolla. Don’t want to pay, we got rocks fa free! Don’t like rocks?! We got wood! Everyone here had accents, endlessly amusing to hear little boys [...]