Over recent years, the Domaine de Boisbuchet<\/a> – internationally known for its prestigious workshops – has, each summer, shown a new and extraordinary exhibition related to design and architecture.\u00a0This year\u2019s presentation, “Boro –<\/em>\u00a0The Fabric of Life”, highlighting traditional Japanese patchwork textiles will be exhibited at the\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau du Domaine de Boisbuchet in Charente\u00a0in southwestern\u00a0France\u00a0from 7th June 2013 to 15th September 2013.<\/p>\n The approximately 50 blankets, bags, shirts,\u00a0Kimonos<\/em>, trousers and other clothing items in this show were mended by poor peasants from left-over, usually indigo dyed fabrics between 1850 and 1905.\u00a0Boro<\/em>\u00a0textiles represent some essential principles of traditional Japanese ethics and aesthetics such as the favouring of the sober and modest (shibui<\/em><\/a>); imperfections expressed by irregularity, incompleteness, rawness and simplicity (wabi-sabi<\/em><\/a>); and, of course, regret about any waste (motttainai<\/em>). All of these characteristics attest to a respect for the singularity of things, which opposes today\u2019s consumption-oriented life patterns.\u00a0Boro<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 derived from the Japanese onomatopoeic\u00a0boroboro<\/em>\u00a0which means something rotten \u2013 thus demonstrates esteem for our available resources, labour and quotidian objects.<\/p>\n