slowclothes: octubre 2010

miércoles, octubre 27

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Hey, I'm around again. Was helping my family getting started in shoool and in a new job. Though times but fruitfull.

I've been knitting and doing but not posting for this reason.

To get you started and as a reward por my patient visitors I found one of my favorite songs for you.

Just listen...

I finally finished the scarf I was knitting for myself with the wool Stefanie kindly gave to me. I had to spinn it first and I got me started into that too. I wear it everyday now and it keeps me warm. I just enjoy it so much I could also go to sleep with it!

I took the pattern from Jane Sowerby's Victorian Lace Today, which is full of beautiful things but very scary if you think of how thin the wool is, that you are suposed to be using!

Who's making the clothes we are wearing?

While in the past centurys mostly women manufactured in homework all the clothing needs for their families, now they have been luckyly freed from this chores. But the machine that sews the clothes for itself without the human hands and abilities has not been invented jet. So now the women in rich countrys are not making the clothes anymore but it would be wrong to beleave that this is a progress for all. The work just was delegated to millions of poor women and men working in sweat shops everywhere in the third world. I understand that we cannot come back to making everything ourselves but we can learn to apreciate this hard work that is beeing done for us through learning how it is done and or getting somehow in contact with the people working for us. Knowing the faces behind our clothes. When we do this, we will probably have a hard time just buying a nice fashionable skirt for little money only to throw it away at the end of the season. That would be a good day for all. And the fashion industry alltogether will have to rethink their ever faster changeing tendencys.