My friend Raju took me to the school where he teaches tapestry weaving. He is now master where for 11 years he lived as a student, spinning silk for 2years as a 9 and 10 year old when he was too little to do anything else. He took me on the full tour: silk worms in their cocoons, bamboo looms, half-knotted sheets of hemp and scratchy cotton for saris curtains towels and shawls, scales for weighing powdered dyes, the school-wide obsession with Picasso's cubist period, the buddha his student is weaving that is too lovely to be for sale, 9 foot tall metal looms that take 3 months to set up in their intricacy. To him these machines are fingertip-tech like google platforms and facebook applications, instruments of art, yoga for the hands, and the place he is possibly happiest in the world.
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