Textilmuseet I Borås- Part II

Here are some photos that I've taken as soon as we came up from the underground archive from the Textile Museum :)

They're mostly photos of machines from past and present that are used for textile making.

Textilmuseet I Borås- Part I

Those that have been following my blog might have already known that right now, I'm on an exchange program in Sweden at a small, textile producing town called Borås. 

About a month or so we visited the Textile Museum of Borås. Just one trip there totally made my entire exchange experience absolutely worthwhile. The amount of collections and preservation of the archives are orderly, neat and every articles handled with much care. 

The photos will be devided into 2-3 posts as there are just too many that I've taken!

Here's a post of the underground archives. Felt a little like a dungeon, sort of. I was the only one taking photos in my class therefore fell behind and was locked inside here alone for under a minute. Kinda scary.

There are only 10-12 of us in my class. One of them looks like Diane Kruger and Agyness Deyn. See if you can spot them ;)

One of the museum curators/ staffs handling a kid's garment

 Traditional Swedish costumes

 Clothes are all alphabetically categorised

 An item from a wedding in the 18th C, with initials of guests all embroidered on it

 A wedding gift to a bride from her husband. As dated

 Collections of fabric swatches

That's Malin on the left. She could be the sweetest looking girl I've ever, ever seen. Maybe a pic of her next time

I like!

A designer from Marimekko. Just passed a couple of years back

That's my teacher, Tonje on the left :)

See you in the next post!

Soul Mama

I absolutely love soul and R'n'B. I love the rhythm, beat, mostly everything about it.

I realised many great songs from this genre are mostly, if not all, sung/ composed/ produced by talented African Americans. Haven't been listening much to it now since the songs nowadays are about girls wearing skimpy clothes and how much the guys wanna bed them. Long gone are the days when R'n'B lyrics were much more discreet and songs were about love. 

Now I'm loving classic songs from soul/ R'n'B singers like Babyface, Toni Braxton, Brian Mcknight, Tamia, Musiq Soulchild, Alicia Keys and the list goes on. Been listening to them for a few days already! 

Here's my illustration as a tribute to gifted R'n'B singers. Keep good songs coming!