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2009 THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF
NATURAL FIBERS
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Therefore the sage, while clad in
homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.
-Lao Tzu
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"I cannot believe that our factory system is
the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is
becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at,
since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that
mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the
corporations may be enriched."
-Henry D. Thoreau
"...it seemed as if this were the Loom
of Time, and I myself were a shuttle mechanically weaving and weaving away at
the Fates. There lay the fixed threads of the warp subject to but one single,
ever returning, unchanging vibration, and that vibration merely enough to admit
of the crosswise interblending of other threads with its own. This warp seemed
necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave
my own destiny into these unalterable threads.."
-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Shepherds, all, and maidens
fair, Fold your flocks up, for the air 'Gins to thicken, and the sun
Already his great course hath run...
See the heavy clouds low falling,...
Hovering o'er the
wanton face Of these pastures, where they come,..
Therefore, from such danger lock
Every one his lovèd flock; And let your dogs lie loose without,
Lest the wolf come as a scout...
John Fletcher, 1579-1625
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