How Things Should Go
“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.”
(Vincent van Gogh - Dutch Painter, 1853-1890)
This is a picture of a young weaver with his hand loom machine, it was shot in a worshop which is manufacturing silk fabrics that we use in our collections.
This place is located in one of the Muslim areas of Varanasi (Benaras) where there is a tradition for artcrafts which is transmitted from generations to generations.
This ancient knowledge is the pride of the Eternal City as Banarsi brocades and jaquards are known all over the world.
Those words by Van Gogh are echoing in this workshop, in addition I would say that those manual lanborers are following the customs and the practice of this heritage because they know that their fathers couldn’t leave them anything wrong or unsafe.
This is why they feel how things should go...
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How Things Should Go
“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.”
(Vincent van Gogh - Dutch Painter, 1853-1890)
This is a picture of a young weaver with his hand loom machine, it was shot in a worshop which is manufacturing silk fabrics that we use in our collections.
This place is located in one of the Muslim areas of Varanasi (Benaras) where there is a tradition for artcrafts which is transmitted from generations to generations.
This ancient knowledge is the pride of the Eternal City as Banarsi brocades and jaquards are known all over the world.
Those words by Van Gogh are echoing in this workshop, in addition I would say that those manual lanborers are following the customs and the practice of this heritage because they know that their fathers couldn’t leave them anything wrong or unsafe.
This is why they feel how things should go...
Join the photographer at www.facebook.com/laurent.goldstein.photography
© All photographs are copyrighted and all rights reserved.
Please do not use any photographs without permission (even for private use).
The use of any work without consent of the artist is PROHIBITED and will lead automatically to consequences.