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HAVANA — From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside.

Baskets piled high with sparkly beads, multicolored buttons and brilliantly dyed feathers join colorful yarns, bright raffia and scraps of gaudily patterned fabric in a rainbow palette on a table in ...