Textiles: Boro and Sashiko
I hadn't either until I went to an exhibition of Boro at the Kobe Fashion Museum in Japan....And then I wanted to know more. Boro ( ragged) is a Japanese tradition of mended and patched clothing and bedding. It comes from the practice of poor rural people repairing, recycling and mending their garments, each time making it into something a little different. They are a significant socio-historical document of Japans'...