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martes, mayo 12

World Wide Knit in Public Day

June 13th 2009

Join us as we knit with hundreds of other knitters around the world on the same day!

Where: Ennetbaden, Switzerland, right next to the Catholic Church St. Michael in the house of the day care center (Tagesstrukturen)

When: On June 13th 2009 from 16:00

Bring: Your Knitting and the best piece you have ever made.

World Wide Knit in Public

Welttag des Strickens

Samstag 13. * Juni * 2009

Wir stricken mit tausenden von StrickerInnen überall auf der Welt!

Wo: Ennetbaden, gelber Pavillon (Tagesstrukturen) neben der katholischen Kirche St. Michael

Wann: am 13. Juni ab 16:00 Uhr

Bring: Dein Strickzeug und vielleicht dein Lieblingsstrickstück

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.