cloth

"When I got home I checked my skin and it was peeling. We wore protective gear, white cloth overalls, but the chemicals would still pass through them. They would make the fabric stiff."

They visit artisans at work making tie-dye cloth in nearby Arimatsu, a village that has been perfecting the art of dyeing fabrics in intricate patterns for 400 years.

Students at the Busan Institute of Science and Technology carefully draped a mannequin in traditional Korean funeral cloth, smoothing the fabric as if over real skin, before gently lowering it into a coffin.

Very gently, the robot lifted a fold of cloth and revealed the sleeping goose.

“The precious bits of cloth folded away in a small trunk like an abandoned trousseau, the books of my life, the medals in their cases.”