Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics - Video Tour part 3
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2020
- Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics
www.japansociety.org/boro
Boro (“rags” or “tatters”) are patchwork textiles hand-pieced by peasants in Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The inability to cultivate cotton in the northern climate of Tohoku necessitated the practice of stitching remnants of used fabric into utilitarian items, including blankets, coats and mittens. These hard-used garments - reworked over generations - express essential principles of Japanese ethics and aesthetics, such as an appreciation for distinguished imperfections and the avoidance of waste.
For the first time in the U.S., this exhibition assembles over 50 archival pieces from the personal collection of folklorist and cultural anthropologist Chuzaburo Tanaka (1933-2013) presented alongside new portraits by editor-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, designs by pioneers of Japanese avant-garde fashion Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and textile-based works by Susan Cianciolo and Christina Kim - part of a generation of contemporary artists influenced by the aesthetics and ethics of mending, patchwork, and re-use. The installation, designed by New York architecture firm SO-IL, rediscovers this traditional handicraft, its history of survival and ingenuity, and its continued legacy within creative practices today.
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I love the bloomers too. And all the stories dealing with the layering of the fabrics.
I love the videos you create.
Really interested content. Hope i can visit Japan someday.
I am enjoying the exhibition so much in this "virtual" life. Ungratefully, there is a part in my heart that yearns to see these exhibits in reality. It has been four years now since I last saw an exhibition of works in textiles and I bleed anxiety wondering when next I may visit another. I enjoy all forms of textiles, but Asian brings me most satisfaction and wonder. Perhaps that is because we are able to view textiles of antiquity in the Asian field, whereas nothing appears to remain of European textiles of similar age. As a child, I slept under a patchwork bedspread that resembled nothing like those that are produced in current times. Our family bedspreads were created from fabric scraps that had once been dresses, blouses, skirts, trousers and shirts - made by my paternal grandmother.
ooo, i love the leggings and bloomers. i'm making those my next historical sewing project!