Craft Traditions
Mending as a visible act
Several traditions repair objects in ways that draw attention to the break rather than hiding it, and the reasoning behind them is more practical than the current framing suggests.
Topic
textiles
Every Kohopoho article tagged textiles — 4 pieces across 1 section.
Craft Traditions
Embroidery that says where you are from
In many traditions, a stitched garment identified a village, a marital status and a family, and could be read by anyone who knew the vocabulary.
Craft Traditions
Red from a root, red from an insect: the dye plants that shaped trade
Before synthetic dyes, a strong, permanent red was one of the most valuable things a textile worker could produce, and the sources for it moved across the world as commodities.
Craft Traditions
The indigo vat is alive, and that is the whole difficulty
Fermentation indigo dyeing is not a recipe so much as a relationship with a population of bacteria that has to be fed, warmed and kept slightly hungry.