Dough sculpting is an ancient craft, but the China-born artist is giving it a new twist.

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Unlike Joseph Kennedy, Mr Pitt is no market manipulator though he did represent one of the most notorious practitioners of that ancient craft in the 1980s, Ivan Boesky.

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The latest crop of shibori enthusiasts, such as Brooklyn-based designer Rebecca Atwood, who recently launched the Blauvelt Collection of hand-dyed pillows, is breathing new life into the ancient craft.

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Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.

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