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Chrestensen Burghout Designs "Creating Original Art Through Wood"
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Editorial - Sept /07 by Toni Burghout
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"A Fashion Faux Pas” September 2007
A fashion designer has a vision and wants to bring that vision to life. So they sit down and sketch out their ideas, noticing the fine points of the design and what is needed to make it work.
Once the design is complete, they select the fabric for their design and consider what all the elements that would best be suited for this particular creation. Once the design is cut, they inspect it consider if it could be made better while still staying true to the original idea. Sometimes this whole process starts again and takes a while to get past this point…. However, when it does, they have created a special moment both for themselves and the fashion industry.
A tailor will make alterations to your clothing and make them fit your stature / build. They haven’t designed anything new by shortening the length of your pants, or letting out the waist of the suit.
My Grandmother was a tailor/seamstress. I faintly recall her huddled over her sewing machine. She would sew clothing for herself and family members. I was so proud of her, and boasted one day that she was more than she was. I was quickly corrected when she heard about it. She was a proud woman, and was proud to be a tailor/seamstress. She never took credit for the original creation and could quickly tell an admirer where the pattern was from.
Well into my Grandmother’s elder years, that old sewing machine was still a prominent piece of furniture in her apartment. Little did I think at the time that her memory along with current events would inspire this editorial.
Chrestensen Burghout Designs is known for our twisted originality, our pushing the limits of scrolling designs, and the names for our patterns. That said, it is only fitting I initiate a new name for specific type of scroller – a “scroltailor”.
Like a seamstress/tailor, a scroltailor doesn’t create anything new but alters a pattern to suit a particular purpose. In many cases, scroltailors are innocently personalizing a project or working their magic to have a pattern to fit a particular type of substrate (species of wood, acrylic). I believe this to be a harmless practice, after all, no two projects should ever be exactly alike or you are now into manufacturing, not creating.
Recently we have seen an onslaught of what I will call the “unprofessional scroltailor”. The unprofessional scroltailor makes alterations to a pattern, and proudly claims it as their own. They often frequent the free scrollsaw patterns sites and offer up their wares to others in exchange for the notoriety of it all.
The desire to be accomplished, or acknowledged as a pattern designer has taken them to a place where they will never truly develop a style or niche of their own. Instead, the unprofessional scroltailor will continue to ride the shirt tails of the real designers, that is of course, until they have flooded the scrolling community with “knock offs” and the real designers decide to close up shop because it is no longer feasible for them to continue their craft.
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