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Yesterday's Textiles and Tea was a celebration of Nigerian cotton textiles and indigo. It's used for dyeing and medicine in Nigeria where it grows in abundance.
There are traditional motifs, such as the gecko, significant to daily experience, and the spiral and other shapes.
The guest now lives in the US but travels a lot teaching dyeing techniques and a respect for indigo, the magic dye. He loves the community of textile dyers and workers and the mutual respect of dyer and material.
He's a joyful man and a happy artist!
From simple magic to high tech magic
And in the garden this morning, see that lone ripe tomato?
Yesterday it was a ripening cluster. I see I have to keep ahead of the squirrels here.
Meanwhile I'm reading a Donna Leon
Happy day everyone, a couple of good election results in, Dems won a special House election in NY, straw in the wind maybe for the midterms.
