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Weaving
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A quipu depends on the interaction of breath and thread, hand and voice. To write with breath is to see the body and the cosmos in a continuous reciprocal exchange.
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― Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today
― Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today
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Yesterday, she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the finest silk thread from the cocoon of a beautiful sleeping butterfly. The women reeled the silk thread on the spinning wheel, slowly and gently. Such delicate work it was, that the silk remembered, at last, the moth which had created it. And the women were awed at the silver shine of the silk produced. If the silk is so divine, they thought, what must be the beauty of th
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― The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption
― The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption
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