Denim surface exploration

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an old patchwork piece of denim with holes and fraying on the bottom half

I have long admired the beauty and honesty of boro fabrics - the wonderful, much-mended surfaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese workwear. Often using indigo dyed cotton, these materials have taken on a life of its own, becoming distorted, fragmented and re-coloured over time through multi-layered patching and hand stitching. Designs are the result of happenstance and necessity, the mending changing what were once utility fabrics into unique records of toil and…

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