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The Textile Files: Walter In The Wild & A Plethora of Other Fabric Delights
The Textile Files, the musings of Solveigh Goett (German textile artist and researcher living in the south of England), is my new favorite blog. Simple and unassumingly poignant in nature, Ms. Goett’s weekly posts feature a photo/scan of a found textile, accompanied by a quote or observation. I came upon this site via a reference to Walter Benjamin. The yarn wound around the rolling papers (above), paired with a quote from Benjamin, during experiments with hashish…
To begin to solve this riddle of the ecstasy of trance, one ought to meditate on Ariadne’s thread. What joy in the mere act of unrolling a ball of thread! And this joy is very deeply related to the joy of intoxication, just as it is to the joy of creation. We go forward; but in so doing, we do not only discover the twists and turns of the cave, but also enjoy this pleasure of discovery against the background of the other, rhythmic bliss of unwinding the thread. The certainty of unrolling an artfully wound skein - isn’t that the joy of all productivity, at least in prose?
- Walter Benjamin, Hashish in Marseille, quoted in: Spieker, Sven (2008), The Big Archive: art from bureaucracy, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, p.56
A few more favorite images…
Waterproof:
“Brain” fabric:
Guitar strings:
Written by robin on 03/16/2009 in Blog | Design Resources | Fashion | Philosophy | Theory/Criticism | Walter Benjamin
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