Every garment carries a row of small symbols on a label, and most people read exactly one of them - the number in the tub - and ignore the rest.…
Maya Linton
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In 1960 an officer walked a fixed route alone for a whole shift, with no radio, contactable only at a locked post on the street with a lamp…
On the crimped end of a toothpaste tube there is a small coloured rectangle, and a very large number of people believe it is a code.
Green means all natural.…
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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…
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In 1960 a furniture factory held a year of timber in its own yard waiting to dry, cut real joints by machine and fitted them by hand, laid…
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In 1960 a cement works quarried its own limestone next door, blasted it on a schedule the district learned to recognise, and burned it in a rotating steel…