This is the kind of mess I really like
I find textile waste really very beautiful and like selvedges so much that I cannot throw them away. One day I shall find a use for them. As favourite messes go, sewing waste comes a close second to this kind of textile-related mess:
This is rucksack and tent and sleeping bag mess. It will stay messy until it has aired, or until I can be arsed to put it away. It is a pleasing indoor mess which signals that a good time has been had outdoors. And indeed a good time was had this weekend, both in the North:
(snowdance by Loch Assynt)
. . . and in the South
(Pentland skyline)
The tent-and-sleeping-bag-airing-out kind of mess truly the best kind….
This blog entry has a lovely use for a bundle of selvedges:http://treefalldesign.typepad.com/tree_fall/2007/08/scuppered.html
The Pentland skyline shot is wonderful. I’d love to go climbing and walking, but living in the flat Midlands without a car scuppers that slightly.
selvedge quilts are all over the intarnets and indeed, even flickr, i think.
http://calidore.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/selvedge-quilts/
they are indeed beautiful. and liminal.
What about plaiting them and making a rag rug from them?
So glad you made it up to “my” part of the world. Next time pop in for a cuppa!
weave them all into a new fabric.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who collects selvedges! However, my computer prefers the spelling as selvage and I don’t know why. Is there really a difference in UK/US spellings for that as well? Silly. selvEDGE makes more sense to me than selvAGE.