De nationale feestrok Possibly 1946

This photograph shows the Nationale Feestrook, a celebratory skirt made by K. Raucamp. It's giving me all kinds of ideas about the possibilities of making art from textiles. Imagine Raucamp, surrounded by fabric scraps, each telling its own silent story. She pieces them together, not with a grand design, but with an intuitive understanding of color and form. I can feel the weight and texture of the fabric in my hands. It’s like abstract painting, but with sewing. A bit like a collage, or a quilt made of memories. Each patch is a brushstroke, a color block carefully chosen and placed. The whole ensemble becomes a form of embodied expression. The skirt may have been made for one occasion, but I feel it captures something that lasts beyond that moment. It reminds us that artists are always building on each other’s ideas.