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The women wore hand-knitted cardigans on top of their sarees and then bundled themselves further in Kashmiri shawls.
They weave traditional and colourful shawls, shirts and a variety of other products to earn food for their families.
She buys leather bags, woven shawls and jewelry, and sells them to vendors who then sell the goods retail.
She is distressed by how many worshipers peck at phones during service, sometimes hiding them underneath prayer shawls or behind purses.
The black shawls, the hooded cloaks and the nuns' cowls of old Donegal were reconstructed for the limousines of New England and Hollywood.
For several months, the Women of the Wall group has held prayers in the female side, wearing traditional shawls and reading aloud from the Torah.
Along the way, Shaw uses shawls and bolts of fabric to recreate the kinds of poses in which Mary has been imagined in classic paintings.
His wife's family owned a textile factory and produced shawls, and the newlyweds started their own business in 1953 with an artisan's shop producing knitwear in Gallarate, near Milan.
Women of the Wall say their central mission is to be able to "wear prayer shawls, pray, and read from the Torah collectively and out loud at the Western Wall".
Now Vatsaloo, 52, is the proprietor of a small gallery outside Singapore's Little India, Isan, where he sells the shimmering silks of Baan Borang as shawls, table runners, slipcovers and purses.
Growing up on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Yellowtail's aunties taught her how to bead and make shawls in the tradition of her people, the Crow and Cheyenne who share the vast tribal territory.
The next morning, she walked to the Preobrazhensky market to get groceries and fresh fish, following the crowds rolling their handcarts down a footpath lined with pensioners holding up hand-knitted shawls and strings of dried mushrooms.
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