The Case for Giving Art You Can Wear
Most art gifts end up on a wall or a shelf.
Which means they have to fit into someone's home. Into their existing colors, their existing taste, the space they happen to have available.
Wearable art doesn't have that problem. It goes with the person, not with the room. It works wherever they go. And it gets seen by people who would never see something hanging in their apartment.
That's a different kind of reach for a piece of art.
The other thing: when someone wears it and gets asked about it, they get to tell the story. Where it came from. How it was made. Who made it. That conversation happens because they're wearing it, not because it's hanging somewhere.
That's what makes it a gift worth giving.
— Reed Slater
Teascarf Brooklyn