Boro (textile craft)
Boro is an old Japanese textile technique in which pieces of fabric are artfully reassembled.
history
At the end of the 8th century, the Chinese term Ranru was used in Japan for old and worn clothing, while the term Boro was only used in the Edo period for worn, worn fabrics and kimonos. Boro was derived from an older adverb boroboro. Today the two terms Ranru and Boro are used interchangeably.
In 1877, on his last visit to Japan for the Peabody Academy of Science in Salem (Massachusetts) , the American archaeologist Edward S. Morse collected ethnological objects, including a cleaning rag made from a used blue cotton kimono with white embroidery. Morse was probably the first to notice Ranru.
recycling
Worn and worn kimonos were taken apart and blankets, mats and other items were made from the lengths of fabric. They were also used as cleaning rags because the washed-out fabrics were very soft and absorbent. They were very popular for absorbing machine oil and for cleaning machines, which were increasingly used with industrialization in the last quarter of the 19th century, and were among the top 10 exports until the 1920s. The old lengths of fabric could be torn into narrow strips and serve as weft threads for weaving a fabric. These thick fabrics are called sakiori and were suitable as coats or work kimonos because they were suitable for all weather conditions.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, peasant women in the cold north of Japan used the Boro technique to sew blankets and jackets out of leftovers and rice sacks in thick layers. The residents of Aomori initially used coarse, thick linen because cotton was only grown in the Meiji period . The female Aomoris also used embroidery to produce patterns in their clothing, which are still passed on as precious heirlooms within families and exhibited in museums. Art design and sewing technology inspire the modern fashion industry today.
literature
- Tadashi Morita: Antique Japanese textiles boro sashiko indigo sakiori book, 2011, ISBN 978-4-86152-326-7
- Tsugaru Kogin Sashiko: Japanese Embroidery Mingei Clothing Boro Work Book, ISBN 4-86480-703-5
- USED BORO Japanese Antiques-Indigo Tsugihagi (Patch worked) Book English MP, 2008, ISBN 4-7572-1596-7
- BORO - RAGS AND TATTERS FROM FAR NORTH OF JAPAN, Aspect Publication 2009, ISBN 4-7572-1596-7
- Saburou Tadashi Tanaka: MICHINOKU NO BORO Antique Japanese Folk Clothing INDIGO SASHIKO RAGS Mingei Book
- Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy: Antes and Ranru and Boro, cephalopods and Japanese textiles from the Horst Antes collection , Kochel am See, 2010