Signature Shirt
As usual, I stumbled across some wondrous embroidery on the internet while looking for something completely unrelated (what was I looking for, anyway?). This is from the Japanese American Archival Collection at the California State University in Sacramento, and represents one of my favorite kinds of traditional embroidery collaborations: embroidering signatures. But this piece bears some historical poignancy as it was stitched by a Japanese-American POW while in an internment camp in the 40's. From the catalog:
Embroidered shirt, 1943. Owner: Fusaye Yokoyama, 2001/41
Friends and acquaintances of Fusaye Yokoyama signed the shirt
while she was at the
Tule Lake Internment Center and then she embroidered over
their signatures.
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Do you know of research on embroidery collaborations pertaining to shirts? I’ve heard of signature quilts but not embroidered signatures on shirts. Thank you for this post!