Really enjoyed this Parkrose Permaculture video pushing back at Hank Green's piece on knitting.

She mentions how knitting was used to send coded messages during WW1. This article has a neat summary on knitting and espionage.

"Phyllis Latour Doyle, a secret agent for Britain during World War IIand now, at 100, the last surviving woman who spied for the Special Operations Executivespent the war years sneaking information to the British using knitting as a cover. She parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 and rode stashed bicycles to troops, chatting with German soldiers under the pretense of being helpfulthen, she would return to her knitting kit, in which she hid a silk yarn ready to be filled with secret knotted messages, which she would translate using Morse Code equipment."

I've been watching a lot of (highly recommended) of late as I'm feeding the child or expressing milk, and some of that time was spent watching a variety of rock art and documentaries.

I found the cave paintings particularly moving, so I traced baby Lilith's hands onto cardboard, got some spray paints, and decorated an otherwise dull nursing top.

I love how it turned out.

Hackaday: The 555 As Youve Never Seen It: In Textile!. The Din (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. Theyve never shied from adopting innovation: churro sheep from the Spanish in the 17th century, aniline dies in the 19th, and in the 20th and 21st integrated circuits

"Tyger, Tyger"
Teableau for 09/11/25

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
William Blake

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In other news my new shorts have finally been dispatched.

Im keen to see how a company can use modern materials and pre-Lycra weaving machinery. One of the pleasures of the two leadership roles I had before this one was my interactions with the textiles people in my Faculty (we had everything from advanced non-wovens to traditional and computer controlled looms e.g., )

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Chinese cotton textile production and consumption changed during the early 20th century with growing demand for finer yarns & direct purchasing of long staple cotton by Japanese companies, according to Masataka Setobayashi in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.

Used a different technique on this shirt. Same dyes as the previous purple shirt, but this one really gave the watercolor effects and some amazing splits!

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Today in Labor History September 1, 1934: A strike began in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, as part of a national movement to obtain a minimum wage for textile workers. The strike lasted until September 23, and involved more than 420,000 workers, with three of them being killed in the actions.

LiveScience: Scientists cram an entire computer into a single fiber of clothing and you can even put it through your washing machine. A new fiber computer contains eight devices that work together as a single computing entity, and scientists want to weave many of them so they can work together as cohesive smart garments.