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Mexico: “This is hand-embroidered,” says van Eijk. Van Bleiswijk: “I don’t like these kinds of things; I think they’re cheaply made. The material’s not nice, the details aren’t nice. I don’t like it.” Van Eijk: “I like it, because it’s simple.” Van Bleiswijk: “Everything that you can dislike about something, I dislike about this. It’s tradition, but it hasn’t grown. In the previous slide you see an evolution, and maybe centuries of tradition in there, but in these flowers you just see a simple thing — no evolution, just what it is, and it’s not good yet.” Van Eijk: “That’s what I like about it, because this isn't made by designers, it’s just folk art.”