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In a shop at the Shek Kip Mei market, seamstress Lam Mei-sin makes silk comforters by hand. It takes two hours for the silk floss to be cut, flattened, pulled, and layered; there are now machines for this, but – for her – it remains a craft. Lam has run Hip Yee Hing Embroidery since […]
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