Complex sentence: In textiles and other forms of cultural expression as pedestrian as hairstyling, straight lines often are interrupted, crazy-quilt fashion; lines are irregular as a means of discouraging evil spirits and diverting calamity.
Split into simpler sentences: In textiles and other forms of cultural expression as pedestrian as hairstyling, straight lines often are interrupted. Irregularity is seen as a means of discouraging evil spirits and diverting calamity.