I think about how making a fabric can start with the collecting of wool, the washing and carding and spinning...
(this week's spinning)
And then knitting or weaving or crochet to make a fabric.
About how when we knit or crochet, in particular, it is often to make a finished project, no cutting involved. Always working towards a wholeness.
But when working with commercially made fabrics, in particular, we often cut things apart, reassemble, and piece the fabric together in an altered form.
I would have a very hard time cutting up a fabric that I had made unless it had moved past its usefulness and needed to be reclaimed.
I think about the why of this a lot. About why we take things apart, and how and why we put them back together.
I found this poem, "Questions Before Dark," today and like it a lot.