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Until something more happens, either assumption might true (& how to make the doll)
This is (more or less) a copy of the newsletter I wrote with a metaphor about these dolls. Since then I've been asked for the story about them, and if there is a pattern for them.
Here is the 'about' part, and at the end of it I will try to tell you how to make them. They are very simple if you don't take the task too seriously.
More Boro Stitching Thoughts & Photographs
I love boro stitching. I love the feel of pulling thread through cloth. I love the 'rule-less-ness' of it, and the minimalism of it.
I love picking bits of cloth for their colours and textures and then stitching them together until I have a new big piece of fabric.
Scrap fabrics, a needle, some thread, that's it.
Old cloth, like old people, is where the stories live.
Our tables, beds, even our houses change with the years, but the cloth we sew, use, and take with us from place to place keeps our long stories, our history.
Old cloth, like old people, is where our long stories live.
What is a Hana-fukin? And why are they called "dishcloths"?
What is a hana-fukin and what can you do with it after you finish the stitching?
Some boro stitching thoughts and examples
This blog is just meant to give examples and stimulate ideas about boro stitching. It's not really a "how-to" so much as a "how-I-do" with photographs.
About the "good enough" school of thought
Today I am thinking about the 'good enough' school of thought
and about contradictions because I would say that I am from the 'good enough school of thought' when it comes to things I make except, I also never cease to want to know how to do things better.
Is that a contradiction? Maybe not.
Cloth is a deceptively humble material to work with...
Cloth is a deceptively humble material to work with, it lacks the status of paint or marble or metal. Yet, it is cloth that receives us at birth and covers us at death. It is hard to find a moment in a day when we are not using cloth in some form...