tradition  is  not static... it evolves

Tradition is not static. It is a living thing that evolves gradually with all the influences on a community  contact with outsiders, prosperity or hardship, climatic change. Within a community, rural or urban a sense of identity and belonging is marked by the clothes that people wear and the textiles they make.  Tradition does not exert a stranglehold, but provides a foundation on which a fertile imagination may build.

John Gillow and Bryan Sentance, World Textiles: A Visual Guide To Traditional TechniquesA Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Company, Boston. New York. London.1999, pp.13-14.

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