I made an ugly but functional loom for tablet weaving - much better than the weird backbreaking weaving yoga pose I was doing before.
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The great thing about hand sewing is if you mess up, you can just undo that part!
She says, softly crying as she undoes all of her work
My best mirror is where the lighting is the worst. But this should give you the gist of my shirt.
Dunlop latex's closed-cell structure offers mites no interstitial space to colonize, which sounds stronger than wool's lanolin mechanism. But the latex case is inferential, never tested against mites directly, while wool has three documented mechanisms plus an Allergy UK endorsement.
Structure matters, but tested outcomes rank higher.
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PXGs Dynamic New Apparel Collection Adds a Modern Sensibility to Seasonal Styles that Pay Tribute to Golfs Heritage &Cosmetics &Services &Accessories
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"Its time to get shirty about the short life of the football top"
"Fast fashion's carbon footprint can be reduced across its life cycle, new study suggests"
Global Kapok Fiber Market
Global Kapok Fiber Market is valued at USD 803 Mn in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 1,145 Mn by 2032 at a 5.20% CAGR. Sustainable textiles, bedding and eco-friendly material applications are supporting growth.
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NEW ESSAY: The Story No. 13 Fieldwork The Linnaean Way Ambassadors and Consuls assisting the Linnaeus Apostles.
GSM measures grams of fill per square meter of shell. That rate stays the same whether you order Twin or King. A 350 GSM duvet puts 350 grams in every square meter of fabric, so a King weighs more than a Twin because it covers more area, not because the fill got denser.
Total fill weight scales with size. The per-square-meter figure does not.
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Creating the Greenest Possible Clothing with Living Fungi
Creating the Greenest Possible Clothing with Living Fungi
About a year ago I found this unused Early's Witney "point" trade blanket on eBay. The first blanket I bought in the '80s & made a capote out of it. The second & third are used for bedding. I grabbed this one because Early's, the last woolen mill in Whitney, England, closed in 2002, ending 300yrs of the regions blanket production. The four black stripes are the points that indicate size & value, often in beaver pelts. More here >>>
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Textile fragment, 4th century
Turkmen designers will take ready-to-wear collections to Paris for the Whos Next fashion trade show, showcasing contemporary work rooted in traditional textiles and techniques
Could Weaving Be the Ancestor of Writing in the Amazigh Language pdf 27pp
"Kenyas clothing waste raises concerns about potential public health risks"
Turkmen designers will take ready-to-wear collections to Paris for the Whos Next fashion trade show, showcasing contemporary work rooted in traditional textiles and techniques
Kapok clumps permanently if it gets wet. Wool felts. Neither can be machine washed or dry cleaned. A protector becomes the only hygiene layer you can actually wash, since the fill underneath has no safe wash cycle to fall back on.
Sleep Foundation recommends washing a protector weekly. The pillow itself only needs washing about twice a year.
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Would that be me picking up Carter Smith estate fabric scraps
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The tassel has to move, but I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at wheelchair bling for my seventh grader!
Pattern is Mable by Grace Fearon on Ravelry for free. I used a 4mm hook and some kind of medium weight yarn, which made the pattern too big for his small wheels.
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Ethereal Kites by Hai-Wen Lin Transform into Elegant Garments and Sculptures
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It blows my mind that people pay this kind of money to do this kind of thing, but there was a Fleur Woods 5 day stitching workshop in Melbourne for...wait for it...
$2000.00
Love to see the results, but $2000 is a heck of a lot of materials etc...Her book is great - grab it from a library!
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TIL: The nearly 70 m (230 ft) is an embroidered cloth ending abruptly with the death of King Harold at the Battle of , leaving scholars to wonder if a final coronation panel was lost.
Ahead of its debut, organizers launched a asking to stitch their own hopeful ending. Winning classes earn a trip to see the and visit the .
ICYMI: On a family farm in , , growers Neek and Avanell Morawitz explain how is cultivated, harvested, and processed.
A specialized machine uses thousands of spinning spindles to pull fine fibers directly from mature , compacting the into multi-ton bales.
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& 2026 will be held from October 30 to November 2, 2026, at Poly in Guangzhou. As a major fashion and lifestyle in , the serves as a for fashion , , , goods, and lifestyle categories.
Monika Kinner-Whalen, Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings
ICYMI: On a family farm in , , growers Neek and Avanell Morawitz explain how is cultivated, harvested, and processed.
A specialized machine uses thousands of spinning spindles to pull fine fibers directly from mature , compacting the into multi-ton bales.
Learn more:
Fascinating article on medieval textile analysis and what it can tell us about materials & trade history:
Delighted to (re)discover the National Archives blog with a good feed
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Am paging history, , and enthusiasts or experts to look at this and perhaps info-dump about what's going on here and where this was taken! What an interesting looking loom, it's pretty different from the European style ones I've ever seen.
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NEW ESSAY: Wedding Traditions Historical Traces from Whitby and the surrounding Moorland Area: 1700 to 1914.