He had to have it. That was what James Gifford thought the first time he saw the bags on display on Maritjee.blogspot.com about four years ago. They were made of unusual material: rice sacks. The blog owner, Maria Goretti Erit Mandiri, had decorated them with sulur motifs, images of colorful tendrils hanging from tree branches.

"The designs are beautiful and elaborate. There's dynamism in the designs," Gifford, an Australian who was the United Nati