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Curator Pamela McCluskey began the tour of her dazzling new “Ikat” exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum by pointing out that almost all the clothes we wear are made from oil based polyester with toxic dyes. “Ikat” celebrates cotton, harvested and dyed by hand in a technique used for centuries. […]