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She did everything well, whether embroidering, spinning, weaving, or mixing perfumes. She was beautiful, tall, always elegant. From her slender hands turned out only exquisite works. We were slow [...]

Now look carefully. I use two shuttles or more, if I want to interweave more than two colors. At first, when you learn, you use two shuttles at most, you can change the threading later in the [...]

      My mother was a child when the island was taken. A ship arrived announcing that all the men were to be executed, the women and children sold into slavery. But at the last moment, a second [...]

My father had the most beautiful wife on the island. Her black hair was thick and silky, her eyes bright, her teeth pearly. She never went out, Papa said we did not need her to tend the animals [...]