Post by paweaver on Mar 16, 2011 9:37:53 GMT -5
I've been reading books on textiles from different countries. I thought I would share a few quotes from the one.
"A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth...Their beauty is inseparable from their function...Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful."
OCTAVIO PAZ, Seeing and Using: Art and Craftsmanship
"Handicrafts have not died out in our postindustrial age. Indeed they not only survive but flourish. Artifacts made by local artisans worldwide fill contemporary emporia alongside the latest synthetics and industrial products. Handmade Furniture, baskets, pottery, and textiles decorate modern homes and offices. Travelers scour local markets in remote lands for the inspiration that only an object made by hand can provide.
The more technology invades our lives with impersonal, colorless, and "branded" objects, the more value we find in a beautiful handwoven textile. In ways we can't always describe, we mourn the loss of beauty and sensuousness in a merely functional world. Finding a lovely woven cloth in a Mexican market or in a shop in one's own land, selecting and purchasing it, blending it into one's environment as function or as decoration, bring aesthetics back into our lives--color, pattern, texture. Time slows down, if only for a moment, releasing us from our harried, hurried days; for it takes a long time to weave, and the result is something that only time can deliver. Woven objects also connect us to our own vanished histories; after all, who among us can't trace our origins back to ancestors who wove?"
Mexican Textiles spirit and style by Masako Takahashi
I know that these quotes look at things from the prospective of a weaver, however, I believe that you could substitute all well crafted handmade items. I believe this is why there is a rise of interest in learning the old skills. They expressed it much better than I could of. lol
Hope you enjoyed,
weaverpa
"A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth...Their beauty is inseparable from their function...Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful."
OCTAVIO PAZ, Seeing and Using: Art and Craftsmanship
"Handicrafts have not died out in our postindustrial age. Indeed they not only survive but flourish. Artifacts made by local artisans worldwide fill contemporary emporia alongside the latest synthetics and industrial products. Handmade Furniture, baskets, pottery, and textiles decorate modern homes and offices. Travelers scour local markets in remote lands for the inspiration that only an object made by hand can provide.
The more technology invades our lives with impersonal, colorless, and "branded" objects, the more value we find in a beautiful handwoven textile. In ways we can't always describe, we mourn the loss of beauty and sensuousness in a merely functional world. Finding a lovely woven cloth in a Mexican market or in a shop in one's own land, selecting and purchasing it, blending it into one's environment as function or as decoration, bring aesthetics back into our lives--color, pattern, texture. Time slows down, if only for a moment, releasing us from our harried, hurried days; for it takes a long time to weave, and the result is something that only time can deliver. Woven objects also connect us to our own vanished histories; after all, who among us can't trace our origins back to ancestors who wove?"
Mexican Textiles spirit and style by Masako Takahashi
I know that these quotes look at things from the prospective of a weaver, however, I believe that you could substitute all well crafted handmade items. I believe this is why there is a rise of interest in learning the old skills. They expressed it much better than I could of. lol
Hope you enjoyed,
weaverpa