Basic jacket #6 in dark red Serbian tweed
451 €
Bought a jacket at the market, walked home through the forest, lost my way.
Evening came. I went down into a hollow and sat on a log to rest.
I heard knocking from underground, like a hammer striking.
Rolled the log aside – beneath it a hole, like a badger’s burrow.
I looked in – and somehow fell inside.
Found myself in an underground room, all in mirrors.
In every mirror I was reflected, yet each reflection was not me.
I stared into one until I found myself back in my own room.
Now I know how to reach home through badger holes.
Single-breasted jacket created under the impression of the clothes of the so-called "otkhodniks", seasonal workers in XIX century Russia who came to work in the city and made up a significant part of the urban population. Leaving their home villages, even for a long time, becoming hired workers, they remained part of the rural community and did not consider themselves city dwellers.
Thick virgin wool tweed fabric specially made for us in Novi Sad, Serbia, using restored 1950's looms. Ivory white washed cotton lining from Uzbekistan. Vegetable-tanned leather buttons. Sorcery.
Evening came. I went down into a hollow and sat on a log to rest.
I heard knocking from underground, like a hammer striking.
Rolled the log aside – beneath it a hole, like a badger’s burrow.
I looked in – and somehow fell inside.
Found myself in an underground room, all in mirrors.
In every mirror I was reflected, yet each reflection was not me.
I stared into one until I found myself back in my own room.
Now I know how to reach home through badger holes.
Single-breasted jacket created under the impression of the clothes of the so-called "otkhodniks", seasonal workers in XIX century Russia who came to work in the city and made up a significant part of the urban population. Leaving their home villages, even for a long time, becoming hired workers, they remained part of the rural community and did not consider themselves city dwellers.
Thick virgin wool tweed fabric specially made for us in Novi Sad, Serbia, using restored 1950's looms. Ivory white washed cotton lining from Uzbekistan. Vegetable-tanned leather buttons. Sorcery.