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#1

“Unspun wool stands for the cosmic gas from which stars and galaxies are formed.”
― Jessica Hemmings, Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today

tags: craft, craftsmanship, knitting, quipus, weaving

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#2

“Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence in stitches held fast by our touch.”
― Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

tags: cloth, craft, embroidery, memories, sewing

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#3

“Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

tags: marriage, tapestry, weaving

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#4

“To care about weaving, to make weavings, is to be in touch with a long human tradition. We people have woven, first baskets and then cloth, for at least ten thousand years. This book will give you many ways to become connected with that tradition.”
― Phylis Morrison

tags: weaving

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#5

“Fabric" and "fabricate "share a common Latin root: fabrica "something skillfully produced". Text and textile are similarly related, from the verb texere, "to weave", which in turn derives...from the Indo-European word *teḱs̱ , meaning "to weave". "Order" comes from the Latin word for setting the warp threads, [ordinare], as does the French word for computer, ordinateur. The French word metier, meaning "trade" or "craft" is also the word for "loom".

Such associations aren't uniquely European. In the K'iche' Mayan language, the terms for weaving designs and writing hieroglyphics both use the root tz'ibia. The Sanskrit word sutra, which now refers to a literary aphorism or religious scripture, originally denoted "string" or "thread". The word tantra which refers to a Hindu or Buddhist religious text, is from the Sanskrit tantrum, meaning "warp" or "loom". The Chinese word Zǔzhī” 组织 meaning "organization" or "arrange" is also the word for "weave", while Chéngjiù 成就 meaning "achievement" or "result" originally meant "twisting fibers together". ”
― Virginia Postrel, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

tags: language-etymology, textile, weave, weaving

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#6

“We are all tapestries, woven of the world. We are lifelines interlacing, yarn of many sources swirled. In our pattern there is purpose. In our softness , strength abides. Warmth and beauty still unfolding, growing, as the shuttle glides...”
― Katey Howes, Woven of the World

tags: people, together, weaving

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#7

“As I worked I continued to be a bit terrified in the back of my mind that it would be awful in the end, a big mishmash of nothing in particular, and there I would be, having wasted a whole week of my life destroying things I wanted to keep.

But I should have trusted the long history of women who've come before me making rag rugs from everything that wasn't nailed down because it wasn't like that at all. Instead it was like a big, incredible tapestry that just happened to--if you could decipher it--tell a million little stories from my life. I could look at it and see my old lace slip and the girls' party dresses and my high school rainbow tie-dyes, the Irish kilt and the Halloween clown pants and so many, many other things. It was all in there somewhere.

I felt like the miller's daughter in the fairy tale, the one who stays up all night spinning straw into gold. But who needs yellow metal, anyway? The was way better.”
― Eve O. Schaub, Year of No Clutter

tags: clutter, tapestry, transformation, weaving

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#8

“The process of weaving a tapestry connects with something primal in our experience as dexterous creatures. There is something sensuous and attractive about tapestry weaving. Its slow rhythm has a very peaceful, repetitive quality to it. And the step-by-step problem-solving nature of the process brings a sense of accomplishment and allows a gentle reconnection with self. The depth of color in a simple piece of yarn, the endless variations of expression when colors are woven next to each other, and the accomplishment of a finished expression that represents something important to you--these are the reasons many of us engage with this historied art form.”
― Rebecca Mezoff, The Art of Tapestry Weaving: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Techniques for Making Images with Yarn

tags: weaving

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#9

“At its simplest, weaving involves two sets of threads: weft threads and warp threads. The warp threads are held tightly by a device called a loom. The process of weaving involves passing a weft thread over and under successive warp threads. This is the basic procedure to weave most kinds of cloth. In tapestry weaving, the warps are spaced widely enough that the weft slides down over them and completely hides the warp. Because the warp is hidden and the image we see is created by the weft alone, the weaving is called weft-faced.”
― Rebecca Mezoff, The Art of Tapestry Weaving: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Techniques for Making Images with Yarn

tags: tapestry, tapestry-weaving, weaving

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#10

“Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: craft, life, memories, novel-writing, novelist, payne, roman, rooftop-soliloquy, succeeding, success, work, writers, writing

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#11

“Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we have gone and quite what we have amounted to....

How different everything is for the craftsman who ... can step back at the end of a day or lifetime and point to an object--whether a square of canvas, a chair or a clay jug--and see it as a stable repository of his skills and an accurate record of his years, and hence feel collected together in one place, rather than strung out across projects which long ago evaporated into nothing one could hold or see.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

tags: craft, meaning, permanence, projects, work

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#12

“Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly.”
― Errol Morris

tags: craft

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#13

“We are UX designers, facilitating for the world, and we love to solve the problems through our craft.”
― Madhuri Vipparla

tags: craft, designers, facilitator

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#14

“To hone your craft is to honor creation. It doesn’t matter if you become the best in your field. By practicing to improve, you are fulfilling your ultimate purpose on this planet.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

tags: artist, conception, craft, creativity, existence, idea, imagination, purpose, reality

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#15

“Never think that you know everything. We can become a master of our craft, but even in that space, we are still students. As long as we are alive, we are meant to keep learning and absorbing new data.”
― Robin S. Baker

tags: advice, craft, data, guidance, knowledge, learning, mastery, student-of-life, teacher, wisdom

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#16

“If you don't select any passion voluntarily, boredom will select you involuntarily.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: art, avocation, craft, fad, hobbies, hobby, interest, obsession, passion, sport

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#17

“Work your craft; until it becomes an art form.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

tags: artform, completion, craft, finishing, perserverance-quotes, personal-development, personal-growth, success-quotes, winning-quotes

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#18

“Art is the expression of man's pleasure in labour.”
― William Morris

tags: art, craft, craftsmanship, labor, work

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#19

“We are the craft of our towns.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

tags: art, clown, craft, crafts, craftsmanship, crazy, humor, joker, life, philosophy

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#20

“As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiting the resignation of their repressive governor.”
― Diana Denham

tags: activism, embroidery, oaxaca, sewing

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#21

“Needlework is a retreat from the white noise of everyday life. It is also, crucially, a choice rather than the social requirement it was for women in the 18th and 19th centuries...It is not something we do because we don't have better things to do with our time, but because we find it a creative, mindful and stimulating activity that lets our minds wander as our fingers track over what we're working on.”
― Jennie Batchelor, Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers

tags: crafting, embroidery, jane-austen, needlework, regency, victorian

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#22

“I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: craft, create, defeat, sabotage, self-defeat, self-destruction, self-sabotage, tragedy

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#23

“It takes thirty-three days to write a book--only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living.”
― Darynda Jones

tags: craft, keynote-speaker, southern-magic-luncheon

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#24

“Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.”
― Unarine Ramaru

tags: art, boundaries, craft, culture, feelings, justification, limits, principles

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#25

“[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi's belief was that the good artist of craftsman has no personal pride because in his soul he knows that any prowess he shows is evidence of that Other Power. Therefore what Yanagi says is 'Take heed of the humble; be what you are by birthright; there is no room for arrogance'.”
― Bernard Leach, The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

tags: arrogance, art, craft, craftsman, humility, japan, unknown-craftsman

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#26

“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: artists, craftsmanship

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#27

“She has always had a secret liking for this part of the embroidery, the ‘wrong’ side, congested with knots, striations of silk and twists of thread. How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

tags: craftsmanship, creativity

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#28

“Oftentimes, our hands are more creative than our minds.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

tags: artisan, crafting, crafts, craftsmanship, creative-act, creative-life, creative-mind, creative-minds, creative-work, creativity-work

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#29

“For many years Minos has been lucky to have in his court the most gifted inventor, the most skilled artificer outside of the Olympian forges of Hephaestus. His name is Daedalus and he is capable of fashioning moving objects out of metal, bronze, wood, ivory and gemstones. He has mastered the art of tightly coiling leaves of steel into powerful springs, which control wheels and chains to form intricate and marvellous mechanisms that mark the passage of the hours with great precision and accuracy, or control the levels of watercourses. There is nothing this cunning man cannot contrive in his workshop. There are moving statues there, men and women animated by his skill, boxes that play music and devices that can awaken him in the morning. Even if only half the stories of what Daedalus can achieve are true then you can be certain that no more cunning and clever an inventor, architect and craftsman has ever walked this earth.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

tags: craftsmanship, cunning, greek-mythology, invention, mythology, technology

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#30

“Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.”
― Avijeet Das

tags: art, artists-life, artists-quotes, beautiful, craftsmanship, create-quotes, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living-life-philosophy, philosophy-quotes

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