Shoddy Goods And Joseph Beuys

What does shoddy mean?
poorly made? fabric made from the shreds of other fabrics?

All of the above and then some?

https://fabscrap.org/

had an insta post about selling it

Well, they will be in the new year. 

In the meantime, let's put up some links and get some learning in.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/shoddy.html

Yes, it's named after the company

You may be more familiar with it in moving blankets. Or it's foam friend, carpet underlayment

https://www.homedepot.com/p/QuietWalk-100-sq-ft-3-ft-x-33-ft-x-1-8-in-Felt-Fiber-Underlayment-with-Attached-Vapor-Barrier-for-Laminate-and-Floating-Floor-QW100B1LT/304702498

Which I could make into a suit (well, not the underlayment)

Then I could play dressed to match with Joseph Beuys

http://dressedtomatch.com/

FELT SUIT: THE FABRIC OF JOSEPH BEUYS’S LIFE

http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2016/12/felt-suit-joseph-beuys/

I had planned on waiting to post this when I got the suit made, but I started writing this in 2016, and that suit is still not made.

But I do have the blanket for it.

Sooooo pretty!

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http://norfolk.ma.us/boards-committees/historical-commission/mills-village-histories.htm

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo24045083.html

Hanna Rose Shell, on a zoom conference presenting her book, May 13, 2021

https://issues.tatter.org/articles/issue-2/alchemy-of-rags/