dycefic:deepwaterwritingprompts: Text: They say Seamstresses begin sewing from birth. While it&
dycefic:deepwaterwritingprompts: Text: They say Seamstresses begin sewing from birth. While it’s true that we sew from the first moment of consciousness, by definition we cannot be born. My first memory is of the needle and the thread. It is the same for all of us, or at least, for all those who I have encountered. We are not born, the Seamstresses. We come into being. Far to the south, Seamstresses came into being holding threads made of linen. In the cold north, threads of twisted wool or hair. They came into being holding needles of wood, or bone, or silver, or iron, or bronze. We come into being as the craft becomes, as our people learn the craft that we embody. I am the Seamstress for an ancient people, and my thread was made of silk. We are not the only ones. There are human skills that become Embodied everywhere. In my land, there are five. The Seamstress, the Craftsman, the Historian, the Physician, and of course the One who Cooks. Keep reading Holy crap, this is amazing -- source link