Fabric - Blog Posts
One side effect of my research for this novel being steeped heavily in textile history is my swelling disgust with modern fabrics.
Firstly they're so thin? Like most things you see in Old Navy or even department stores might as well be tissue paper?? Even some branded sports t-shirts I've bought in recent years (that are supposed to be 'official apparel' and allegedly decent quality) are definitely not going to hold up more than a year or two without getting little holes from wear.
This side of even two hundred years ago fabrics were made to be used for YEARS, and that's with wearing them way more often because you only owned like three sets of clothes. They were thick and well made and most importantly made to LAST. And they were gorgeous?? Some of the weaves were so fine and the drape so buttery we still don't entirely know how these people managed to make them BY HAND. Not to mention intricate patterning and details that turned even some simple garments into freaking ART.
I know this is not news, the fast fashion phenomenon is well documented. Reading so much about the amazing fabrics we used to create and how we cherished and valued them, though, is making it hard not to mourn what we lost to mass production and capitalism. Not just the quality of the clothing and fabrics themselves, but the generations of knowledge and techniques that are just gone. It makes me what to cry.
I need to get a sewing machine.
Please Be Seated UK-based design studio Paul Cocksedge collaborated with White & White to fabricate the massive steel and up cycled scaffolding wood installation as part of the 2019 London Design Festival.
I was going to work on this as soon as I got up this morning, but silly morning me forgot that last night me wanted to do something. So I woke up, got to my feet, thought for a moment, forgot something important, then went back to bed. I just did the thing because I'm lazy and now I'm thinking of the next thing to draw... I will be, I have know clue how it will be. ( Aiming for good!)
I feel like this is something my wife would write. The only reason I know it’s not her is she isn’t 25. She won’t tell me her Tumblr name.
leather is the halfway point between wood and fabric. and wood is halfway between fabric and metal. fabric is halfway between liquids and metal and liquids are halfway between clouds and fabric. having come back to fabric the best kinds are cotton, linen, and rayon. these are just the laws of nature
Ojiya chijimi summer kimono, seen on
This type of kimono is made in Niigata prefecture (old Echigo province). Hemp kimono fabric bolt (tanmono) are laid outside to be whitened by sunlight reflecting on the snow. This process is similar to the one used for yuki-tsumugi kimono, and both are registrered as UNESCO Immaterial Heritage.
This process is depicted in Kawabata’s Yukiguni (Snow country)
The chijimi creased effect is considered very chic. Snow-made fabrics are especially appreciated for summer clothings.
“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.”
Subconscious _ silk scarf https://www.instagram.com/magneto_scarves/