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Article: TIE-DYE OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1988
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When tie-dye was enjoying its heyday in the '60s, Carter Smith
was a California kid watching his mother teach Girl Scouts how to
color T-shirts. He liked what he saw, and a few years later, he
followed her into her tie-dye workshop at the University of
California at Santa Cruz, where he was a history student.
By the time Smith earned a master's degree in fine arts from
the University of Santa Barbara in 1972, tie-dye was purportedly
dying out, but Smith still began selling his designs.
And today, with tie-dye resurgent, Smith is weaving his life
around the craft and, in the process, making much more than those
predictable, low-tech, Grateful Dead versions.
The basement of Smith's ...