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All clothing is handmade (2022)

Writing about an art quilt I made with reused textiles and what I hope it reminds us about the clothing that we wear and the people who created it.

When I was a kid, my father gave my mother a birthday gift of what was essentially a copy of her favorite dress, made by a local seamstress. It took forever to figure out how I wanted to quilt it (large stitches with long strokes, colors matching as best I could in the blocks themselves) and then to get to it, but I’m very glad that it’s done and I can share it now. Also check out the documentary Invisible Seams by Jia Li and Jodie Chan, which interviews eight Asian seamstresses and pattern-makers in the New York garment industry.

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