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SUE CLOWES THE FOUNDRY

We worked well together because we were so different.  I would blabber incessantly,  and Sue was studious, a real thinker. She wouldn't  throw anything together, it was a painstaking intellectual process. She worked most of the day and night, making the screens, printing and airbrushing everything herself.  I loved going down to her studio and watching the first print appear on the T-Shirt.   My favourites were a picture of a fifties muscle man with the words "Sex In Heaven",  and Sue's hobo designer, which were symbols used by travellers and tramps to indicate danger or where food and shelter might be found.   Soon ´The Foundry´  was filled with Sue's multicultural designs,  the shop sign depicted a Hasidic Jew.  It caused a real stir : lots of Jewish housewives would come in an ask. "What is this shop ? Is it political ???  Our biggest seller were y-fronts with the Star of David  on.  One old lady said they were for her grandson'  bar mitzvah. Jon made a spirityal boo-boo by asking Sue to put Adonai, meaing My Lord on a T - Shitt.  We had to destroy all,  though I kept one for myself.

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