Maria

May,

Wiener

261-5010

Lore

1977

NEWS
2033 W.

41

Worn in dappled sunlight,
batik has a jewel-like
shimmer.
In colours with
the depth and saturation
of precious stones and .
metals,
its image reflects
the ideals of its makers.
Authentic batiks are
precious cloths in Indonesia.
This has much to
do with the way they are
made--an ancient method
requiring much skill and
time.
The tool for
applying wax in a batik
pattern to a few square
inches of cloth takes two

months

to

make.

With

such

an investment of labour,
it is no woner that great
care is given to design.

,

Our easy-fitting wraparound skirt has now been
recast in batik.
Two
pockets and a slightly
gathered waist make it
very
wearable.
The price
is
$35.
Match it with a

patchwork

for

$28.

We

have

of

batik

batik

different

handbag,

for

the

house

batiks--LMW

too--glorious

bedspreads.

$190

patchwork

to

$250.

landscapes

of

dozens

Harmony

Classical
Eurydice--a

long

cotton,

a

scarf

to

diagonally

over

the

hips.

to

$285.

It

may

match.

with

skirt

in

printed

be

tied
A

make

blouse.

you

music--outside.

want

to

listen

to

of the

Mood

Cotton

jersey

3

for

Coe

uncomplicated
entertaining

Palazzo
pants
and

top,

navy

with

eeerely

wiht te

skirt,

stripes,
$200.

flared

and

blouse

|

slit

at

the

neck.

Available

ina

delicate

navy

print
as

over-

on

cream,

as

other

well

patterns.

$175.

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==
We

have

imported

knits

from

Simply

designed,

they

ideal

are

of

May

Milan

in

June

Berlin

in

July

Oslo

August

in

stripes

and-black
cream.

most

are
or

light

to

wear,

for
in

The

of

Italy.

easy

Athens

Vancouver,

$122.

line

Tirelli

or

on

a

times.

narrow

red-

blue-and-black

Cardigan

Camisole

top,

and

$37.

skirt,

This

square-necked

horizontal
black.

$107.

white

Pullover

style

has

tracery

on

and

skirt,

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74
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OUR SINGAPORE
STORIES FROM LUKE KURVERS,
are an antidote to the common
conneetion,
illusion that commerce is cut-and-dried--as
and

less

involved

In

balance-sheet.

a

as

passionless

tidy

fact, the balance-sheet is a false front--a
disguise which business likes to present to the
The importance
public and the tax department.
Why
of this antiseptic image is mysterious.
psychodo businessmen choose to look unlike
They are no
therapists, poets, mad bombers?
crippling

with

sublimated,

passions,

with

raw

both

and

narcotic

fears,

awful uncertainty about the future.
the north coast of Java,
vendors carry

dreams,
On

back# of their bicycles.
a hotel or restaurant

stacks of batiks on the
Catching sight, through

such
of anyone reasonably well dressed,
window,
her
approach
they
as a matron from Djakarta,

and begin
do not speak,
eyes, intent
promising

stake out a yard of ground,
table,
They
unfolding their merchandise.
simply staring into the prospect's
upon any nuance of expression more

indifference.

complete

than

This activity is a lure to other vendors.
To sit down.for a cup of coffee in the area is
to put oneself in danger of being’ confronted
by perhaps five salesmen with burning eyes,
poised like dancers over their ever-changing
display.
This salesmanship is not really highpressured;

there

who

truly

loves

arts

once

were)

if,

after

depends

on

reproaches

no

are

Refusal
nothing is bought.
a long performance,
detects,
One
game.
the
in
move
accepted
an
is
a pleasure taken in their
in the salesmen,
if
independent of the gains,
is
which
activity
They may
any, resulting from a given attempt.
be compared with the itinerant street musician
and

playing,

who

the

Even when
coins cropped into his guitar case.
That
there are no coins, he thinks to himself,
was a nice lick.
So, it seems there is an art of business.
(as all
A very primitive art, still inseparable
mother

it.

be

found

as

is

in

And

from

do

Java.

not
Do

life-activities

the

think

you

that

wish

a

it

is

deeper

which

only

under-

to

Look for the art in it.
standing of business?
(i.e.
Do you wonder why so many 'irrational'
Look for condecisions are made?
unprofitable)
flicts between the demands of profit and those
It is a commonplace that many artists
of art.
pay only as much heed to ‘commercial potential’
necessary

to

sustain

their

art--and

some

But how many businesses have foundered
pay less.
on their owners' huge, dreamy projects--'"beautiful'

computer

systems,

restaurants

of

uncomro-

mising quality, bookstores so well stocked
works of literary criticism as to earn the
praise of scholars?

in