For the Love of Textiles

This is not a blogpost about textiles, but about a beautiful flowerbook I bought last week in Rome. On the last day we visited the bookstore La Feltrinelli. Ofcourse most books there are in the Italian language. But downstairs at the art section a book a book stared at me. With an intriguing title: Florilegio (Anthlogy) i fiori, il tempo, la vita (flowers, time, life) By Makoto Azuma (florist) and Shunsuke Shiinoki (photographer) I opened it just one time and there it was: a page full of colour, almost toxic. I was intrigued right away. So I bought it to take home.  The book contains 4 chapters:                          1.   The stage of birth 2. The stage of blossoming 3 . The stage of Maturity 4 . The stage of silence It might also be seen as all stages we go through in our life as human being. We are born, we grow up, we become older and at the end silence...

For my birthday I got the book ' Out of fashion /The new fashion' by Birgitta de Vos .    A book about the world of textiles. The world I love so much. Beautiful photography combined with texts. All done by Birgitta herself. Birgitta de Vos writes in her book the followings quotes: It is a picture poetry book embracing time as a treasure. Away from the fast lane of fashion it takes us on an inspirational world tour meeting forgotten textile makers and methods. It is in love with the proces of creation and embraces time as a treasure. Silent branding, mending, contemplative clothing and unplugged crafting reminding us again who we really are: creative beings. The beauty of this book starts with the cover. A little strip of unbleeched cotton is wrapped around the page. A fabric which we all know and is used in many garments we wear on a daily basis. The book is filled with visual poetry from all over the world. Starting with 'Tim...