Mirrors, coral, cotton cloth and paper--all central materials for "traditional" African arts--came from contact with Europeans.

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Use foreign comics as unusual wrapping paper, or use a furoshiki cloth, Japanese-style (try a napkin, scarf or handkerchief).

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"There is nothing more beautiful than the book, the paper, the font, the cloth, " she said at the New York event.

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Daily Facials, a disposable cleansing cloth that also moisturizes skin, is an idea from the paper group--Pampers, Charmin, Bounty--and is now being borrowed by SK-II and Old Spice.

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