Szorstkość lnu i zapach wełny. Wykonywanie ściegu za ściegiem jako forma dialogu z naturą
The Roughness of Linen and the Smell of Wool. Making stitch by stitch as a form of dialogue with nature

Author(s): Ewa Danuta Kępa
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: textile craft; everyday creativity; the anthropology of the line; autoethnography; dialogue with nature
Summary/Abstract: Making traditional handicraft is a process of creative construction and deconstruction of the meanings from the past in current socio-cultural contexts. It is also a form of exploring the world, the way of human participation in the 'world-in-formation'. In the presented article I treat hand-made textiles as a dialogical process of creating knowledge, creating reality and communicating with the past. I am focus on the work of the hands of those who process organic materials in the bosom of nature. I weave autoethnographic threads into the presented text. Threads which are experiences accompanying me in the process of recreating the stitches of an old linen tablecloth made at the beginning of the 20th century.

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