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Cut from a Bigger Cloth archive and insectsCut from a Bigger Cloth reflects the path that brought Addoley Dzegede to making textile work based primarily on the history of wax print and how Dutch manufacturers copied Indonesian batik through an industrial process, making a cloth that eventually became so identified with Africa that many don't realize its origins. The book is divided into sections, including photos from Addoley's family archive of studio photographs in the years following