“Fabric woven by a mother who encoded within the threads a secret treasure map that only her favourite daughter could be taught to decode, fabric that could cover a woman’s head thereby propelling her into the lost half of a man’s soul, fabric that could transform an ordinary man into a celestial warrior if he draped it over his shoulders, and fabric that could bless every speck of dust in this faithless world and turn it into a vast holy realm – by just touching it to their foreheads all men, princely or lowborn, would appear before god as equals. As”