Today's random textile history:
Heard the word "shoddy mills" and had the memory of having heard about "shoddy wool" as a fabric talked about in old magazines... Stumbled upon this elegantly simple webpage about an old mill that did and still does fabric & fibre reclamation! The articles are quite charming in many ways:
"When knitted garments and wastes had been dyed the sorters checked over for contraries. In winter time this was their favourite job especially if the material had just come from the dryer. The sorters had to have their jobs changed once or twice a week to prevent monotony as production would drop and bad work produced. The sorters had a radio to listen to and there was one woman who was in charge of it and by mutual agreement it only went on for certain programs. The sorters also looked after the 2 or 3 wild cats we had to have to keep the vermin down, who lived in the river banking.
Contemporary Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats
It was actually almost too sunny to weave yesterday
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How to scour plant-based fabrics (Gentle Living Shop)
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The Philistine, Matchbox Spirit, and the Crowned Poet (ca. 192125) by Paul Klee.
Source: Zentrum Paul Klee / Wikimedia Commons
What is fascinating about this group exhibition where fabric takes center stage to explore its cultural significance by sixteen female artists is the variety of ways they use it or portray it and the threads connecting those portrayals.
A zipper closes the full opening in one pull. Buttons are done up one at a time, and the gaps between them are where a corner of the insert escapes. Of nine makers checked on their own product pages, four close with buttons, two with a zipper, and three do not say.
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All About TextilesDrape Some of This Plant Armor Fabric Over a Strawberry Patch to Triple Yields with Less Pesticides
Drape Some of This Plant Armor Fabric Over a Strawberry Patch to Triple Yields with Less Pesticides
BIGGEST CROSSOVER NEWS OF 2026
had no idea Eve Kosofsky-Sedgwick was a textile artist and my hunger for sewing makes even more sense now than ever
unfortunately, Hyperallergic is pulling an email if we want to read the rest of the article. ive actually perused Chintz & the Bayeaux book, so i guess ill add all to my library list
12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art
"WRAP launches UK textile collection and recycling programme"
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Most natural pillow brands are mattress companies first. A latex mattress maker sells latex pillows, and a maker that quilts wool into mattress covers sells wool pillows, so the pillow range tends to map whatever is already in the building. It also explains why so few of those pillows unzip: a mattress line is built for sealed, consistent units.
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Elastane gives clothing its stretch, but it is virtually impossible to recycle.
Triumph, RadiciGroup and The LYCRA Company have demonstrated a possible route: selective dissolution to separate nylon and elastane from surplus fabric. The principle is to dissolve a selected polymer while leaving other components separate, allowing the materials to be recovered through different processing steps.
iTextilis
NEW ESSAY: Protective Textile Materials Reflections by 18th-Century Long-Distance Travelling Naturalists.
Latinoamericanos a la moda, basureros desbordados de ropa
BBC: Thousands of textile treasures preserved in new project. A treasure trove of thousands of items in storage for decades at a mill museum in Lancashire are being checked for the first time and added to a new database. Helmshore Mills Textile Museum has helped preserve Lancashires textile industry history for the past 40 years. As textile firms collapsed in the 1960s and 70s, many contents
Sujet en rapport avec la problmatique des textiles surabondants qui deviennent des dchets dont on ne sait plus quoi faire.
Un nouveau reportage que je viens de raliser, en lien avec une article du Courrier de la Mayenne, dition du 1 octobre 2026.
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Luxury fiber, straight from the Andes.
The Alpaca Fiber Market is projected to grow from $520M in 2025 to $863.30M by 2035, a 5.2% CAGR. Online retail is the fastest-growing channel.
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The No New Clothes Club
"Brighton-based, community-
driven movement dedicated to
cutting textile waste and making
sustainable fashion the easy
choice"
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A duvet marketed as made with organic covers 70 to 95 percent organic fiber content. A plain organic claim requires 95 percent or higher. Both are label grades a finished duvet can carry under GOTS certification, but the fiber content differs by 25 percentage points, and only the license number tells you which one you paid for.
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Finished with the second teatowel
This is all Marian's photos of her own work. She was an amazing artist
Look at how deep these cells are already, even though its still under tension. This is the single plain diagonal tie-up. Kinda interesting the difference in the single vs the double. (See previous weaving post). That extra tie-down really makes a difference.
It looks like Ill have enough warp to do a whole towel in this tie-up. Kinda excited about that. It looks like I screwed up my weaving mathin my favor this time!
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My weaving corner today
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Today in Labor History October 10, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) struck in Little Falls, New York. The strike lasted into January and involved primarily immigrant workers. It started at the Phoenix Knitting Mill, but spread to the Gilbert Knitting Mill, also in the Mohawk Valley. In November, the Little Falls Council voted to authorize a contingent of special police, which escalated tensions. Later that month, the AFL created United Textile Workers local #206 to compete with the Wobblies for members and press attention. But when the AFL announced it had reached a settlement between with mill owners, later that month, the workers refused it, siding with the Wobblies and demanding greater concessions.
I have spent many evenings reading in bare, anonymous rooms at hotels and hostels. My main image of life at my new part-time in Hallstahammar is evenings spent reading in a cozy, personalised den surrounded by , , and .
Second towel started
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Arrow-Head (Pl. 26) (1896) by Eugne Grasset, from La plante et ses applications ornementales.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive