[Continued from yesterday’s post] – So we don’t follow the basic procedure of fa

[Continued from yesterday’s post] – So we don’t follow the basic procedure of fashion – no season and no deadstock. In other words, when we make a Sashiko jacket, we hope that the person will enjoy the jacket throughout one’s life, possibly pass it down to the next generation. Every year, every season, the well-woven fabric & Sashiko thread will change its color and the time add the beauty on the Jacket. It is a jacket made from fabric. It is stronger than the other fabric because of Sashiko, but of course, it gets damaged, torn, and weaken. We are here to keep mending & repairing with our Sashiko stitching, but it will be time-consuming & costly (with shipping and extra). Therefore, we share the Sashiko we practice so everyone can jump into the social experiment that I am doing now (when she/he is interested).
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Famous “Boro” is a mixture of “unintentional” yet “intended” piece, I believe. I do not believe that the Japanese back then kept repairing the fabric to end up with the “World famous art piece”. However, the beauty of Boro cannot be completed at random. I feel the “pride” of Japanese women who wanted to be “fashionable” even in the extreme environment. Today, we have choice of colors, fabrics, and designs. We can do literally what we want. So, I hope, our children a few hundreds years from now would be proud of us for enjoying both side of “Fashion”. One as the expression of who we are and one as the memory of who we are. The authentic Boro I define requires the “continuous process of using it”. We also enjoy Boro-inspired patchwork and all these category hopefully passed down to our next. ☆
昨日の投稿に続いて。端的に言うと「刺し子とアパレル（ファッション）の相性は良くないんだよなぁ」と呟いてしまったわけなのですが、ただ、「刺し子、自分でやるぜ！」っていう方には、刺し子とファッションの相性は決して悪くないと思うのです。だって、自分で直せるからね。服の寿命って、どんなもんなんでしょうか。シーズンが大切という方にとっては、数回着たらそれで寿命を全うしてしまうものなのかもしれません。それも文化。ひとつのカタチ。
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刺し子をする側としては、僕たちは「一生かけて時と一緒に何かを刻んでいく衣類」を作っていきたいと思っているのです。とはいえ、衣類は布。ダメージを受けたら補修は必要です。僕たちが補修をすることもできるのですが、同時に、自分で好みで「補修」という時を刻む衣類を作れたらいいなぁなんて思っているのです。だから刺し子を伝えたいし、その核である運針を大切にしたい。単なる針仕事なんですよ。ただ、物語は無数にあって、その無数にあるものをひとつひとつ紹介していきたいんです。昔の物語から、明日生まれるかも知れない物語まで含めて。
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2019-04-24 10:43:49

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