Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics features more than 50 boro, traditional Japanese textiles that used tattered fabric scraps and hemp to create new life out of waste.

Boro textiles are early examples of sustainability in fashion because of their innovative approach to recycling, and they embody the fundamental principles of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic ...

The Quilt rug references the works of textile artists Anna Albers and Sheila Hicks as well as 19th-century Boro, which involved mending textiles with disparate fabrics to extend their life.

Then there’s the case of boro textiles – fabrics that are often worn out, but then repurposed, patched together to create new garments.

SO-IL created the Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics exhibition for New York's Japan Society. It showcases the boro textiles practice that originated in Japan in the 19th and 20th centuries ...

The term boro refers to patched, pieced, stitched and mended garments, bedding and other utilitarian items which were often hand‐dyed with indigo. In farming and fishing communities of Japan during ...

Southern, African American quilts, and their distant cousins Japanese Boro textiles have distinct origins, histories, and cultural contexts, but they share some commonalities in terms of their ...

Fifty vintage examples are on view in “Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics,” at the Japan Society, alongside avant-garde piecework from such designers as Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, and ...

“Boro is not literally practiced in the Philippines. It began when Japanese farmers and fishermen had to repair their clothes out of necessity because they lack textile.

Then there’s the case of boro textiles – fabrics that are often worn out, but then repurposed, patched together to create new garments.