The Textile Anthropologist: An Interview With Folk Lounge
Handwork is disappearing right as people are starting to notice what it took with it — patience, lineage, the ability to just sit still and make something with no deadline attached. Sara talked to Shagho, who runs ornamental programs out of Frogtown Arts in LA, about why rest and slowness are survival skills, not indulgences — and the real, doable path back: knock on the door of a local archive or museum, find the ornamental lineage tied to your own family, and let a "quirky calling" pull you somewhere useful, the same way a random library visit led her to research at the Huntington Library.
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