Jude Hill's "Contemporary Boro 2" online course starts next week (see her Spirit Cloth blog), so I've been thinking boro as I try to decide what I'll use for my applied learning--an old shirt, perhaps, or maybe a bag to carry.
I've been fortunate to see the boro exhibit a couple times now at Amuse in Tokyo (click the highlighted* terms for more information from the source). If you're in Tokyo or get a chance to visit, this is an amazing place with a vast collection (the result of one man's life's work) of rural Japanese clothes, cloths, cookware and tools, including this farmer's jacket:
and this coat, below (with apologies for the sideways images--these were taken with my phone, and I'm too eager to get back to stitching to fiddle with them--click on image for larger version).
detail of coat:
I have a few more photos of clothes and cast iron tools--let me know if this interests you and I'll try to post more as I go along. For now, my needle beckons...
* barely highlighted--faint gray on my screen, sorry. I'll try to figure out how to fix that.
