Patch by Ruth
Patch
- Creator
- Ruth
- Story
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I was recently doing a project that required me to use some of this silver material and it took me back to when I was an art student in the 90’s, when I found a very similar roll of the same silver material in my local Scrap Store (a warehouse filled with industry off-cuts where you could load a trolley and pay £5 for the lot!). I remember taking it home and sewing together a pair of flared trousers which I then proceeded to wear to a party that same night. I didn’t have a sewing machine in those days so they were constructed by hand. I didn’t care for their longevity, more for their one night of fun. I remember literally sewing myself into them just before I left the house. Needless to say, the material was not the most comfortable of things to wear on a hot dance floor! This piece of fabric represents the fact that my mother taught me to make my own clothes when I was 12 and how this knowledge meant that I could be creative (and be spontaneous) with how I expressed myself, which for a shy teenager was a powerful gift.
I have continued to sew my own clothes throughout my life, made clothes for my children and taught them to sew their own too. Thank you to my mum, Moira Broadway and to my Granny, Betty Irvine who taught her. - Rights Holder
- Ruth
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