OT: Slow down .....

Got my vote.

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The link is to an article asking for a Slow Communication movement to> begin. It's related to the Slow Food movement, and now of course there> is a Slow Cloth movement

I, too, prefer the "slow lane".

amy in CNY

This is very, very good. I got plugged into the Slow Food philosophy years ago. I'll be proud to get down with Slow Cloth as well.

I have friends who send cards for no reason but to brighten my day, and we send postcards whenever we travel. I think I'll go stock up on my Crane's "dove gray" stationery that I so rarely use these days. I'm just about out. It is such a pleasure to write on, receive, and generally handle fine paper.

ep

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Wow, what a great essay. Thanks!

ep

Sunny, i also use stationary for sending with thank-you's or sympathy cards, etc. I also use a feather quill and ink in a bottle for writing letters and cards. I guess I should've been born a century ago. amy in CNY

Roberta, I don't think you have to join Facebook to be part of the Slow Cloth movement. The woman who wrote the essay that Sandy linked for us is one of the founders of the Facebook Slow Cloth group. It's just a place to get people together. But discussions in that group will be moving (probably) to a different place to facilitate easier discussion. I'd guess a Yahoo group as that seems to be where most folks go. Either way, you can be your own Slow Cloth advocate. A flickr.com group has been started for slow cloth photos:

Not much there as yet. Butthe movement is growing. I'm not certain anything I make could beconsidered Slow Cloth. I love the idea, but I'm not really one tocommit to making all of my own cloth (painting or dyeing) or buyingfrom hand dyers and painters. It's just too expensive. To tell thetruth, there are parts of the ethos that seem a bit snobbish to me.How many of us can afford to buy pieces of vintage silk and cottonthat used to be part of a Japanese farmer's overalls? I love thatfabric, drool over it, but can't really buy it. So while I am going tolisten to the Facebook group and explore all I can, I don't know if Iam a part of the Slow Cloth movement any more than I'm a part of theSlow Food movement. While I shop at Farmer's Market in the summer, Ialso am happy to open a can of kidney beans if I run out of time tocook my own. I'm actually a Practical Cloth and Practical Food sort ofgirl.

Sunny

Howdy!

It's not difficult at all to follow the Slow Cloth movement: "For me, slow cloth is not just hand stitching, it's a relationship to textiles and craft in all forms, including machine sewing, business, fashion design, dyeing -- you name it. It is a progressive way of thinking about craft, a response to sameness, commodification, and fast, cheap production, whether in the personal craft world or the multinational clothing world."

I'm hearing my 9th grade Biology Teacher, Mr.U., "People, don't make this hard for yourselves!"

No one says you have to make your own cloth. It's about enjoying the process as well as the Finished product. This group, along w/ Lainie, leaves the field wide open for all of us to enjoy IT, whatever it is. Enjoy the ride. R/Sandy - handquilter, Casual Housekeeper