Clothing tags provide provenance
but more importantly they aid in navigation.
When getting dressed the starting point is always the tag,
back of the neck, back of the waist.
With hand made clothing the lack of a tag results in
a fumbling about, situate the arms now line up the shoulders…
Until I can decide on a font, color, size for my future oakworm tags
I have pulled scraps of fabric out of my stash
and stitched them onto the back neck line of my sweaters.
I rather like the sweet little bits that combine sewing memories
with my knitted garments to create my 'start here' points.
xo, j
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