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Threading the Needle Kristi S. Lekies while continuing his career asFor over a century, French colonial and Moroccan postcolonial state building efforts have tethered cultural identity to the preservation and "modernization" of artisanal craftwork. Twenty first century heritage development initiatives have aimed to turn the "traditional" know how of skilled textile producers into "modern" knowledge, reeducating, reorganizing, and reorienting artisans with new markets in mind. These efforts obscure artisans' own