My First Chemise

Parveen had to make this twice when the first one was too small. Beautiful, precise work.

February 12th 2012
Most of the work that AWAG does for payment consists of stitching pin stripes every one inch on three meter lengths of fabric. The industrial machines are incredibly fast, but they have to stop every 24 inches or so to re-measure the width. I decided to have a chemise made to fit my wide American shoulders. Apparently, Parveen refused to believe her measurements because the first one she made w ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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Marie Spodek

MarieSpodek

Ten days after I graduated from Augustana College (1965), I was in Kashmir, India, in a houseboat...preparing to teach English as a second language at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. What a long ways from a one-room country school house in South Dakota. Less than a year later, I traveled from Bombay to Dar es Salaam on a third-class boat to visit with many of my students who had traveled from East Africa to Ahmedabad for their education... In 2006, we headed to East Africa to visit my daughter in Uganda, the country I couldn't visit in 1966 because of a revolution/revolt/d... full info

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