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Textiles woven, or otherwise produced, using materials taken from other textiles.
Textiles , sometimes only fragments of textiles, used as covering of various sorts.
Textile fragments assembled to resemble other formats.
A textile made by cutting down a larger textile from another format.
Resizing. Cutting down or supplementing an item of clothing so that if fits a different person. (Perhaps a marginal case, since the basic purpose is unchanged.)
The More Usual Kinds of Repurposing
Grenfell” hooked rugs are among the finer sort and were made from cut up women’s silk stockings and other underclothing.
“Boro,” a Japanese urge toward economy
“Boro,” is a Japanese word theliteral meaning of which is “tatteredrags.” But the term “boro” isalso used to describe patchedand repaired bedding, clothing andsome utilitarian bags
Made by sewing together pieces of textiles, originally, part of something else.
When the pieced items become worn, the patches are patched.
1980,Pinner and Franses, “Turkoman Studies I”
I. G. Lownds“The Turkoman Carpet as a Furnishing Fabric.”
Chair upholstered with an Indian, Robari wedding shawl material. Embroidered shawl before application on right.
Chair, upholstered with a Bangladesh textile called “kantha.”
Pieced, very much like Japanese “boro.”
Our next category in our “kinds of repurposing” outline is:
Textile fragments assembled to resemble other formats.
The most impressive example we have encountered is this Czar’s throne coverlet, composed of pieces of two different Persian embroideries. It came into the Russian Czar’s possession in 1582, but is much older.
(from Daniel Walker article in Hali, 161)
Greek embroideries have also, famously, been assembled to convert “fragments” into saleable formats, like this piece, a little over 2 feet square.
Constructed bag, but not with deceptive intent.
A Yomut tent band front and a jajim back.
Here is its front.
Composed Coptic textile
5th to 7th century.
Composed of pieces of decoration taken from Coptic garments.
A textile format made by cutting down a textile of a different format.
Salt bag a likely format candidate for “construction.”
The “continuous” fabric indicator that I mentioned in relation to cut down salt bags, is not infallible. There are bags made originally by folding over and sewing a single piece of material. Sometimes this single piece is woven at the size of the bag and sometimes the bag is, in fact, cut out of a large piece of woven material, but still made originally as a bag.
The bag (the guesses have been Luri or Char Mahal) below is of the first sort: made to this bag size, then, simply folded over and sewn up both sides.
Cut from a larger piece, but still not “constructed” in the way we are talking about that here.
Here it is with a similar bag from Boralevi’s collection
Our fifth and last category is sometimes more than an instance of cutting down, but it can also be the occasion for enlarging.
We’ve called it “resizing.”