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Showing posts with label wabi-sabi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wabi-sabi. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2018

Boro Progress

Looking back through previous blog posts I see that I started the work on this boro vest almost a year ago. Since the last update I've added many more patches and a whole lot of stitching to the front.


It's still not "complete". Some of the patches don't have their reinforcing stitching done.


And I have plans to eventually add patches to those lower pockets as well.


In the meantime I wear the vest almost daily, as an added layer as one would a favourite cardigan,


and that has added some wear to the front button band which, in the true boro style, now needs patches on its patches! I hope to keep repairing this garment as the need arises. I think it has an element of "wabi-sabi" to it. Quoting a Wikipedia's entry on wabi-sabi: "The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete."