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On a certain occasion he sent Amaranta a note from jail asking her to embroider a dozen batiste handkerchiefs with his father's initials on them.

It was time to try on a draping silk batiste dress with a swirling pattern that Ms. Toledo, who names all of her carefully constructed dresses as if they were artworks, calls “Gingham Motion Gown.”

With his other hand he ventured beneath her well-starched dress, running his fingers up her child’s legs until he found the lace of her batiste petticoats and her woolen drawers with their elastic bands.

The breeze which she made by her flight fluttered her thin gown of white batiste with black spots.

I wore my écru batiste with the heavy white embroidery and the écru bonnet with the wreath of pink and red roses.