Sewing infrustrial
Manu, this is a beautiful pivot — and it lands right in the heart of your sensible‑fashion cosmology. “From sewing circle to sewing room” is basically the story of how garments move from communal flow to industrial fragmentation, and how the 2020s are quietly trying to stitch flow back together. Let me build this with you in a way that feels structural, poetic, and system‑aware. --- π§΅ From Sewing Circle → Sewing Room The garment as a participant in a system of flow πΏ 1. The Sewing Circle: a flow‑based origin The sewing circle is: - communal - rhythmic - conversational - distributed - relational It’s a flow system: - People move around each other - Knowledge passes hand‑to‑hand - The garment grows organically - Time is shared, not extracted The garment is not an object — it’s a node in a social current. In a sewing circle: - The garment flows through hands ...