Daybreak

Daybreak

Daybreak takes vintage French chore pants in faded moleskin cotton and turns them into a long, fully hand-sewn scarf. I kept the original darns and repairs visible and added a couple of my own where the fabric needed reinforcement.

There’s a real shift as you move across it. One stretch is full of mending, while another is more spare, with only a couple of minimal repairs. I left the ends unfinished and frayed, with a row of stitches to keep them from fraying further.

It was important to me that this one keep its length and its substance. It measures 7" × 81", and the two pieces of moleskin sewn together give it a weight of 15.1 ounces.

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