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Jackson Houser's avatar

Whether you write more about silk or not (and you should write more about it) please tell more about those significant media advantages. I know you warned that we shouldn’t get you started, but it would make up a little for what we might lose if we do not get from you a suitable study of silken sutures

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Leslie's avatar

My sister has a quilt from 1891 that has the names of various women in my great-grandmother’s quilting group and its creation date stitched into the individual patches. Although its colors are now fairly drab, and its physical character attenuated, the quilt makes a lovely wall hanging. This incredible essay enables me to appreciate its value in historico-cultural, as well as familial, terms.

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