{"id":381,"date":"2008-11-13T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alison.gloderworks.net\/weblog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2008-11-13T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T12:50:00","slug":"arpillera-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Arpillera &#8211; details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/SRwiwD_sAoI\/AAAAAAAABls\/t_4_ZFFgL4g\/s1600-h\/PB090414.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/PB090414.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZszsUJzUXUE\/SRwiwZhwesI\/AAAAAAAABl0\/f54cuSRYpq0\/s1600-h\/PB090416.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/PB090416.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> details are wonderful relflections of what is on sale in the daily markets &#8211; notice the brooms and basketry objects, small miracles of minature construction; and the hats, jewellery and musical instruments down the left edge of the upper pic.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people are either shopping, or offering, as one Egyptian market vendor expressed it last year, to <em><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Let me help you spend your money madam!&#8221;<\/span><\/em> I have to say, though, the marketing was less directly aggressive. In Egypt I found that vendors would even gently take hold of my arm or wrist to direct my attention or try to make me head in a particular direction. In Peru there was constant verbal pressure sotto voce, and goodness, I would love to have bought up something from every stall, but everyone knows that can&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the right of the lower pic are some of the fruits and vegetables, as heaped up in every general market amongst the household items.<\/p>\n<p>These are major works of the miniaturist&#8217;s art, quite up there with other examples like dolls houses or ships in bottles, IMHO. I have never been bitten by the bug, but do appreciate the work of people who love doing this. <\/p>\n<div style=\"CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The details are wonderful relflections of what is on sale in the daily markets &#8211; notice the brooms and basketry objects, small miracles of minature construction; and the hats, jewellery and musical instruments down the left edge of the upper pic. 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