Blog Info

The current workings for the display of the information from the  blog. Two outfits that came out of the clothing swap--clothing that was left behind to be sent to good will. We're talking about screen printing and or sewing information and facts onto each article of clothing about where it came from--how far away that is--and things about what it's made out of. (Not sure about the undergarments but it was amusing to pin them to the wall.)

Either way that's where we're going so far. We have clothing the information needs to stream lined to bullet points or something easy to read and interesting.

Fiber Awareness Project Part 2

Alright well as some of you might be aware--or not. The FAW is really sort of a two part project. The first part involved this blog as well as the map and all of that. The second part of this project included clothing swaps, getting together with people and trying to make stuff. The first and the second parts of this project both sort of worked and sort of didn't work for differing reasons. The stepping stones in the first project we over came to some extent, I'm still not overly happy with the map--mainly because I want MORE people from other countries. However, I'm okay with where things are at this point in time. I would like to continue posting information on different fibers on here, we'll see how that goes.

So one of the big issues we've been trying to resolve with both of these projects is; what do we do with the information. How do we display it? How do we put what we've been doing into a format for people to come and look at. In a format that we can put up for critique next month. We got together today to try and figure out the answers to some of these questions:

What came first? The attack of the clothing zombies! We've all been brain washed into buying more and more clothing. What would happen if we all had to wear all the clothing we think that we need and or want? (We'd probably all be sweating our buts off and falling over because we couldn't hardly stand up among other things.) Hahahha... anyway rather random but it was a fun interlude into meaninglessness.

You have a whole bunch of clothing, but what do you do with it? What do you do that constitutes an art project that raises awareness about clothing and where it comes from? What do you want to draw peoples attention and how do you do that? (Yes, clothing zombies isn't the answer.)

Well you can take all of the clothing that you have and weave them together into a great big rug. However then you end up with one more big thing that sits in a big somewhere in your house that you never know what to do with again. That isn't really something that either of us really wanted or needed. We discussed cutting things up to, but we didn't really want to destroy the clothing and render it useless... so we settled for cutting all the tags out of the clothing instead:

Hey Ruth!

A.. I live in Australia, state of New South Wales, town called Colo Vale.

 

B & C Where was the clothing made? What is it made from?

1- lime green pants - Made in China, cotton/spandex

2 -brown quilted jacket - Made in China, polyester/rayon

3 - white/floral dress - Made in Thailand, cotton

4 - Levis jeans - Made in Macau, cotton/spandex

5 - black knit jacket - Made in Indonesia, rayon

 

I''m attaching a pic of myself in the green pants (1) at my brother's wedding which was about a year ago, as you can see it was an outdoors afair.  I bought the outfit, green top and pants in Canberra on a girls weekend away just before I came to Bloomington. I would have included details about the jacket as well but I have cut all the tags off so I havent got a clue about it.

It was a bit scary to see where all these clothes were made...in Asia, mostly China.  I'm sure I have a few things in my wardrobe that are made in Australia, but unfortunately I have nothing with me.  The Levis I bought at College Mall in Bloomington...seems it doesnt matter where you buy the stuff, it's all made in the same area.

 

Anyway I hope this is of some use,

 

Cheers,

Ruth

Swap-Eration Part 1

So Candace and I held the first Swap-Eration today. It went well, we had people show up. We mostly did mending today and traded clothing. It was interesting to see what people showed up with and what they went home with.

Anyway, so I'm not going to post a whole lot of pictures. Candace set up a FB event for it. I'm hoping that people can view the pictures that way. This is a link to the Face Book Event, where images have been posted. If that doesn't work please let me know and I'll post a few of the images here.

I think Candace took a couple of pictures to. We will be having another Swap-Eration later this month if anyone is interested in joining us for that, please let us know and we'll send you information.

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