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On that pre-Internet-no-cell-phone-era trip I sought direction from the Yellow Pages. I asked women where they shopped. I took the subway and trains to suburbs I'd never heard of before. African fabric remained elusive. Eventually, I found two pieces of fabric to buy - one in an African dressmaker's shop in Maryland, the other in the gift shop of the Smithsonian's African Museum. I didn't know what I'd do with the fabric, I just knew I needed it, and I left wanting more.