For thousands of years weavers have been patterning cloth with stripes. Stripes can be made of contrasting colors, contrasting textures, or contrasting weave structures―or any combination of the three. Look around you, and you'll see stripes everywhere! They are in siding on buildings, fluted columns, vanes of radiators, book spines on shelves, boards in a wooden floor. You'll find them in plowed fields, vineyards, orchards, fields of grasses, rows of corn (another grass), and stands of bamboo (yet another). They're in the coats of animals―zebras, tigers, and the tabby cat by your hearth. Is it any wonder, then, that we are fascinated by stripes?
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