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M.MORALEJOMany young people adapt to the new normality recovering textile crafts, which abstract and help boost more sustainable clothing
03 ago 2021 . Actualizado a las 00:26 h.WhatsappMailFacebookTwitterComentar ·Calceta, crochet, embroidery, sewing, cutting and clothing;They are techniques that remind us of our grandmothers and great -grandmothers.Needle methods that sound like Demodé with misogynist nuances, and that date back to routines prior to Inditex monopoly and the fast fashion.The topic survives, but more and more people, younger and more men dare to break it.
"When we have abused something for a long time, there are many people who start going to the other extreme," says Patricia Fornos, illustrator and embroidery teacher.For her, the trend began to be noted subtly "three or four years ago," but pandemic and confinement were a turning point.Entertainment, relaxation and evasion formulas that could be practiced without leaving home were needed.
During the broken of last year, Antía Torre, 21, started sewing responding to the demand for masks of the moment: «At first I sewed hand masks, but as I saw that I was starting to ask for my family and my friends, I decided to buy a sewing machine ».With the more than one hundred masks he made, he acquired enough skill to start a more ambitious project.Without having an idea of a patronage, he decided to try to get a corduroy bag that he saw in a store: "I took all the measures and spent several days drawing ideas on paper".Finally he got it, and the result was a success."My friends loved it, so I made more bags," he presumes.
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One of the trends in networks that stood out the most during confinement were the videos of girls and boys shown their crochet and sock creations.Thanks to this visibility in social media such as Instagram and Tik Tok, Julia Lopo, 24 years.It was not until October, in the midst of an "existential crisis" when he decided to take the step: with his mother, he went to buy his first fabric, his first thread skeins and his first frame.Julia needed something to "disconnect and focus attention".
Two months ago, Julia walked with her mother and noted that the windows were crowded with crochet garments at a "exorbitant" price: "I realized that I had no need to buy those clothes, which with a ball of woolAnd a YouTube tutorial could do it to me ».From there, he began to share on his Instagram account -@mindyoustitches - all his creations, even accepting orders.
Maria García Freire, 21, starting a crochailla was served to manage her thoughts, but with a different nuance: "It serves me to rest, but also to do more things at the same time, because I automate it".Maria usually makes crochet while attending the telematics classes of the university.He got hooked on that "personal satisfaction" that gives him the ability to make his own clothes.Like Marta Sanjiao, 20, who took hook fondness in January, during that semiconfining in which "we had already taken away any possibility of leisure".
Interestingly, at that time, his father, Luis, had begun to go to sewing class: "My mother always put my neck to my shirts, so when she lacked, I decided to start doing it".And his daughter would soon sign up, eager to discover "other possibilities that cannot be done in crochet, but with seam and fabric".
Twice a week, they spend the afternoon at Café-Costura Vigo, run by Arantxa Fontenla.In the small academy - and «Social Club», as its owner calls it - groups are gathered "of the most diverse", presumes Fontenla.Design students, daughters who are encouraged to accompany their mothers and, in recent years, several boys.Vittorio, who studies philosophy, uses his "free time to do something manual".With pleasure and without shame, such as Luis: «It is nonsense that only conceives seamstresses;Then the tailors, what are they? ".
Arantxa always teaches your students the importance of taking advantage of old and retalous fabrics.Luis uses old Citröen uniforms to get work clothes, and Vitto has already narrowed all the garments that were large.The need to abstract is a key factor in understanding how this type of activities DO-IT-Yourself ("do it yourself") are becoming fashionable.But many young people, such as Hélio Marcial, are also aware of the need for more sustainable consumption: "Recycle the clothes that people give me because it is great or no longer wants it".Making your own patterns on these second -hand fabrics, a dress has been made and your first shirt is finishing.
Hélio began to sew because he did not "like to depend on Inditex, on the fashions he imposes and the sizes he marks".Maria also started a crochet for the same reason: "I don't like the clothes in stores, I suffer a lot for sizes and that the things I try does not look good"."People are fed up with Fast Fashion," says Julia, who does not stop seeing in networks how "more and more people are joining independent of clothing brands".Arantxa sees it in its own sewing class: "We are realizing that resources are limited and we have to take advantage of them".Not only reuse old clothes, but also taking advantage of retales that are left over from the fabrics that are sold to wholesale that, in addition, are much cheaper."One of the girls who comes here says that sewing is the cheapest vice it has," he jokes.
Marta Sanjiao knows that she does not save "buying fabric and making a shirt from scratch that buying it in a store", but "in this there are more benefits than the economic one".Maria spent about 20 euros on becoming her first sweater."The same is the same as it costs you in a store, but I enjoyed it much more," he says.With the added plus of the autonomy that gives him: «I decide the quality of wool, how much money I spend and how much I work on it;And if I get tired of clothes, I can undo it and make another one with that wool ».
Who occupies his hands, vacates the mind
When Covid arrived and people had to lock up in their homes, the usual pace of society was completely paralyzed.A society accustomed to living and without time for introspection.The confinement brought to light the existing lagoons in emotional management and the population had to look for exits to face the situation.The most accessible: crafts."It is very gratifying to see how an idea gradually becomes such a beautiful thing and with so much color," says Julia Lopo, referring to his embroidery."It was a shelter that needed," explains the young woman.Julia chosen embroidery, as I could have chosen clay modeling.But the special attraction of textile crafts lies in social cult of clothes: "If I make a hat, I can not only put it to cover my cold ears, it is also the fact of being able to teach something I did".
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