Kalamkari is an Indian textile printing art from Andhra Pradesh that uses only natural dyes and a process of around twenty-three steps. The name combines the Persian words kalam, pen, and kari, craftsmanship, a term that came into use under the Golconda sultanate and Mughal patronage. There are two main styles. In Srikalahasti, artists draw freehand with a pen-like bamboo stick and fill colours by hand, and their temple scrolls show scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In Machilipatnam, artists use carved wooden blocks and draw Persian-influenced patterns, including the tree of life. Dyes come from roots, leaves and mineral salts, while alum and myrobalan help fix the colour.

In 1909 D. W. Griffith made a 14-minute film about a speculator who corners the wheat market and doubles the price of bread. A farmer sows his field while a 'Wheat King' gambles in the Chicago wheat pit; bakers raise the loaf from five cents to ten and the poor line up for bread. Griffith cut back and forth between the farm, the feast and the breadline, a technique called parallel editing, so audiences saw both ends of the economy at once. The film drew on Frank Norris's stories and on a real scheme: months earlier Chicago financier James Patten had cornered wheat, sent bread prices up and made about $5 million, roughly $185 million today.