Ms. Dodge also teaches a chiengora workshop at the Boulder yarn shop Shuttles, Spindles and Skeins.

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Weeks later they started turning up hundreds of miles westwards, skeins of exhausted families limping along the road.

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Dyers' Souq (Souq Sebbaghine) is the most picturesque, with skeins of freshly dyed saffron and vermillion wool hung to dry against Marrakshi pink walls and Saharan blue skies.

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For the time being, though, Mr Clute has chosen to press his argument for real fantasy through the skeins of theory, influence and resemblance that pull the unwitting browser through this magnificent encyclopedia.

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Charles A. Hartman Fine Art and PDX Contemporary Art, both recommended to me as standard-bearers, offered fairly conservative painting (respectively, Eva Speer's realist chunks of ocean garnished at the edges with "unfinished" skeins of combed paint, and the twee veggies of Tina Beebe's "Of Gardens" exhibition).

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When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run and when we imagine ourselves to have much more time than we do our every impulse is to fight, to die with chemo in our veins or a tube in our throats or fresh sutures in our flesh.

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