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Adapts well to the American collars held down by two small buttons. The knot owes its particular consistency to the thickness of the tie’s lining.  This, tied normally, is derived from the Kippers’ tie from which it is differentiated however, as being thicker.

Pearl decorations on a feminine bag, probably the workmanship of Nez Percè, from the 1980s.  The figure portrays a butterfly, the triangle centre motif: the cocoon.  The metamorphoses were a widely recognisable phenomenon in all of North America, and were symbolically associated with renovation and regeneration. Around 1860, non-linear decorations …

For this cone-type knot, the tie must be rather short.  Its main characteristic is that of a short leg that sticks out at the knot’s upper entrance.

To think of Shirin Neshat means identifying her with her photographs. The veiled women who she interprets in her rigorously black and white images, with the splendid Arab calligraphy which covers ever centimetre of skin as a decoration made of Henna, have by now become famous. The Iranian artist born …

The Hopi are the Southwest’s best known basket makers. The Hopi work making use of both spiral winding as well as weaving, using yucca and grass.  The flat baskets are used as trays or sieves, or well-covering plates.  When a Hopi girl is about to be married, she asks all …