It is not my intention to hurt anyone. So I spend so much time to reflect what I write – being mindful of what I say. Well. I am mindful and let’s see how the Sashiko culture is already “re-painted” in English.
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Sashiko is NOT a mending technique. Slow-Stitching in Sashiko is NOT something we can be proud of. Boro is NOT a method of making “Visible Mending Patchwork” or artistic colorful patchwork. Sashiko is NOT related to Wabi-Sabi (which many superficially understand Wabi-Sabi as accepting inperfection).
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I guess it is quite reasonable for me to be frustrated by the new trend of “Sashiko”. A person once told me that I am over-reacting. I don’t think so. Please help us to spread the words. This cultural repainting (ignorance) is getting a bit of too much.
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ちょっと落ち着いて、昨日の（消えてしまった）配信で語った事と、現状について考えています。ゆっくり。30分程瞑想して、正座して、考えて参りました。やっぱり、今後は「刺し子とは何か」を個人的な好き嫌いを含めて、どんどんと前に出していきます。「どんな刺し子でも日本に興味を持ってくれればいいさ！」と考えていたのですが、もう少しだけ自分に正直になります。刺し子の「刺」の字もないSashikoが目について仕方ない。ここ数ヶ月の流行で、気が付かない間に土足で家の中に入られていた感じがあります。気が付かなかったわ。でも気がついたら苛立つわな、誰かが家の中に土足で入ってたら。
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2019-11-20 09:36:22
Hope you take your time to explain more and more. Understanding is a growing-process, I think
Thank you for clarifying. I feel like this post makes clear what your previous posts were about. Your previous posts sounded like you felt only Japanese people could make good sashiko. I understand that visible mending is not the same as sashiko or boro, but how would you feel if no credit was given for these obvious influences? Would it be better for non-Japanese slow stitchers/visible menders to not mention that the technique is inspired by Japanese folk craft?
Buena explicación. Personalmente para mi es un bordado y lo utilizo en Patchwork. Gracias
I will read and see YouTube videos to learn more of your thoughts on what Sashiko, Boro and Wabi-Sabi is. ✨
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I think your words speak to the cultural appropriation that happens when popular culture takes over.
“Over-reacting”??
*Nobody* has the right to tell someone else how they feel about a thing.
That sounds like some White People mess, telling people *not* them/*not* White that they’re being “sensitive” or “over-reacting” about something that is hurtful and/or insulting and/or just *wrong*.
I am curious… I see many of your posts which say “sashiko is *not*” but I would like to learn more about what sashiko *is*. This may help others and myself understand better
I see you suffering from globalism too. Whenever someone knits a cable stitch for money a little irish grandmother is discounted also due to cultural appropriation. Now that these cables are done in China and India for the mass market, she is not valued either. I think we all have to look at this differently.
Speak your truth brother!
Yes yes and more YES. I’m often confused by all the people showing Boro as a “trendy visible mending technique”. My kimono friends and I tried to rationalize it but we agreed that it’s just ignorance of the actual cultural context of origin 🤷🏻♀️
You’ve focused on what IS NOT. WHAT IS Sashiko? WHAT IS Boro?
I have not practiced sashiko but enjoy its beauty. I do embrace hand stitching and prolonging the life of a garment rather than buying new. I recently heard that boro was a shameful practice in that a person only had one garment and needed to keep mending that one garment. I hope this is not true because I think that anyone who makes do with what they have has much dignity. Please be patient with westerners for hijacking your traditions–we should all be more sensitive to others’ traditions but sometimes we are ignorant and truly mean no offense.
Actually I agree with everything you say. I understand you. But it seems “too late.” The popular culture that is seeking some escape have embraced this stitch and made it fit to their needs. And it’s unfortunate but… I don’t think you can change anything. The crazy sashiko and Boro culture is on its own now.
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