Episode notes
Tara came to the workshop on the first real morning expecting to be taught something, and Saloni taught her nothing, on purpose, for nine days, and very nearly lost her over it.
I had this from both of them, over the weeks — from Saloni at our table in the evenings, and from Tara herself, much later, when she had come far enough to laugh about it. But that first morning there was no laughing. Tara arrived hungry, electric, ready to be shown the secret advanced things, the clever cuts, the master techniques that would let her leap ahead of her peers and begin, at last, her ascent. And Saloni handed her a bolt of the plain undyed base — the cheapest, dullest cloth in the room, the nothing-cloth, the blank — and a pair of scissors she was not to use, and said: "Don't cut anything. Don't...
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