Old-world Craftmanship
Everything you could want in a news story -- old world crafts, commercial innovation, and sex -- is wrapped together in this article about traditional Polish lace makers selling handmade lace G-strings instead of the more usual but poorer-selling alter clothes and doilies. If you follow the link in the article to the town's website, you can see their gorgeous "stringis" (warning: photos of underwear ... of course). The quality of the lace making seems, from the photos, to be phenomenal.