Word: knittedness
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These efforts, however satisfying in the short term, tend to backfire. Technology makes it more difficult to engage in protectionism anyway: it is easier to turn back ships pulling into American ports with goods made in overseas factories than it is to regulate-or even measure-what kind of overseas...
For the thousands of victims of Darfur, hope is nearly extinguished. In Touloum, I meet a filthy young man in rags, distractedly unpicking the threads of a knitted woolen cap. Diar, the camp chief, introduces him as Abdoolcarim Abdur, or "Adam." Diar says Adam, 22, saw his entire family cut...
Expect to find everything from graphic skins for your iPod and customized sneakers to original artwork and necklaces and belts made out of knitted yarn. There are colorful patchwork bags, stuffed animals stitched together from discarded clothes, silhouette brooches fashioned out of black plastic and slippers decorated with animé...
Art to Wear (Abbeville; 320 pages; $95) by Julie Schafler Dale is a stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons...
Until recently, the only garment ever made specifically for me was a dowdy macramé sweater scarred with Newport Light burns. Actually, it wasn't a sweater?just a sleeve, constructed over many years with a characteristic mix of love and laziness by my grandmother, a woman who believed that all...