His skill lies in weaving the experiences of the fictional Karl and his family into accurately re-told historical events—a burial at sea, a flawed mutiny, an attempted suicide all featuring true-life characters.
Falaquera's intended reader, who did not know Arabic, would thus have been unaware of his skill and particular goals in weaving together his sources, but this would not have bothered Falaquera.
This favours individuals who have been bypassed by the conventional school system, allowing girls in particular, with their traditional skills in weaving, basket-making and pottery, to compete for opportunities.
To date, Rags2Riches has trained over 800 artisans, not only in weaving and sewing skills but also in life skills.
It should be complementary, and indeed, the skill of a news broadcast editor is increasingly in weaving these different forms of journalism together.
If the work has anything in common with the better-known symphonic and operatic Borodin, it is in the composer's skill at weaving folk melodies into grandly conceived formal structures, retaining both the earthiness of the themes and the intricacy of the interplay between the instruments.
Through Mardana's efforts, the Indonesian government and Indonesian energy giant Pertamina have recently supplied the village with farming infrastructure, new buildings, and programs to provide training in new skills, like weaving, to the kolok.
Though better known in the US, Salvatore's skills at weaving deep, compelling and, above all, plausible sci-fi mythologies underpin Reckoning's epic ambitions.
