As the leaders conferred, other tribesmen beat rhythms on goatskin drums and danced round the campfires with bared, curve-bladed djambias.
The books are covered with intricately hand-tooled sheep- or goatskin; inside, hundreds of pages of yellowed paper are filled with Arabic calligraphy the painstaking penmanship .
Another Lacroix signature the mixing of rough and fine materials appeared early on in the show in the form of an oxblood red dyed fox and goatskin coat worn over a slinky .
CALENDAR Sun/29 PERFORMANCES FOLK TRIO, 2 p.m., “Ten Strings & a Goatskin”, young French Canadian folk group will play at Auburn Unitarian Universalist Church, Pleasant and Spring Streets. $10/$5 youth, including students through age 22. More information is available by visiting www.Maine- FolqueCo-op.com or calling 782-0386. Tue/31 read more
Dec. 26, 2013 - The Times Record
Bill Buford in Wall Street Journal Relating a bit of lore from early in the chef's career, Mr. Buford describes a late-night party where Mr. Batali was "drinking tequila from a goatskin boda bag, the liquor splattering all over his face."