July 2011
26 posts
On Average: Americans throw away more than 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person per year.
The U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste
Cloth Value
To seek the symbolic potentialities of cloth in its material properties is a preliminary step, and only partially compelling. Equally important are the human actions that make cloth politically and socially salient. {such as:}
1. Cloth Manufacture
2. Cloth Trade, (exchange and bestowal)
3. Ceremonies of Investiture (powerholders or aspirants bestow legitimacy)
4. Cloth used as dress and...
Raw Trade
In the medieval period much of the export trade of England and Scotland was in raw materials for cloth. Fleeces were exported to Flanders to be turned into cloth and then imported back as finished goods. It was more profitable to sell the fleeces than to turn them into cloth at home. This export of raw wool was the basis of prosperity for those estates in the most favored areas, the eastern and...
Dotty
Sexy, feminine, witty polka dots: Ever since the industrial revolution and the advent of machine textile printing made these symmetric repeats widely available, they’ve signaled modern dressing. It’s no wonder the runways were silly for spots this season.
Page 139 Elle Magazine or elle.com
