Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cotton Cloth. The tunic tradition goes back to Flavia Helena, wife of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (he is said to have picked her up in a Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler...
Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
...Cares? Along with loss of incentive went gross mismanagement by party activists in the communes. Dutifully heeding Peking's clamorous cries for concentration on grain and on backyard steel production (since largely abandoned), commune bosses neglected vegetables, cloth and fiber crops. The result was a severe crimp in Red China's once booming export drive (TIME, Aug. 3), and a vegetable shortage so severe that last month China's cities were informed that henceforth they would have to grow all their own food except grain (TIME, July...
Machine weavers at home spin off 35 ft. of ordinary cloth daily, while the Moriyamas labored all day to produce a scant 2 ft. of Kurume-gasuri. They took their new responsibilities seriously. In all of 1958 the pair made only 420 ft., which the government promised to buy. But when 140 ft. of it was rejected by a special government committee as "not living up to living cultural asset standards," and the committee paid only $300 for what it accepted, Tomikichi Moriyama said to his wife: "Ah, such mental suffering we have to endure since we became living cultural...
...marked beneath its bark with the shape of a conch shell and a wheel; holes must be found beneath it to show that snakes have lived there. When the tree is carefully cut down, selected carpenters carve the three images. A priest-his eyes blindfolded, his hands covered with cloth-transfers from the old idol to the new its essential mystery; some say it is a box of quicksilver, some that it is bones from Vishnu himself...