#textiles

[sapphireseraphimart]

Finally finished up another tie! This time featuring a mini circular pin and a square pin both made from Yugioh cards and a bunch of flower beads and sequins!

Some slightly better pics of the buttons and details!

[heavensghost]

Franz Kafka

[theinternetarchive]

ball gown, american c. 1820.

[thebennsofdallas]

You think Nandor ever slept beneath one of these?

Incredible and gorgeous 17th century Ottoman tent from the Dresden State Art Collections.

[aworldofpattern]

Oscar de la Renta: 'Crafted like a mosaic, discover the making-of the #odlrfall2024 stained glass gown — ushering in a a new House-signature embroidery technique.'

Constructed from hundreds of polyamide panes, hand-sewn together in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Tiffany glass. Ready-to-wear: £36,546.

[heavensghost]

[theinternetarchive]

fragment of a needle lace band with dragon, castle, and plants, italy c. 1500s.

[clawmarks]

Journal of fabrics and textile industries - 1882 - via Internet Archive

[katyunderthebed]

My most successful kitten so far. The sewn limbs are less stiff than knitted ones at this scale so that was what i wanted. The neck is a little too long which im going to fix but otherwise the scale/proportions are pretty much what i wanted.

[ryrolie]

🦀 for my friend's birthday

[wretchedmaiden]

@sugarcomafoxtrot

handmade by Trovelore

[sparks-and-sparks]

William Morris Textile Designs

[stellaluna33]

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

[pinkcupboardwitch]

Oh I LOVE this, thank you!!

ID: a Black woman demonstrates two outfits and the making of them: a pink-and-black striped tunic with loose pants and a matching round headdress, and then a really beautiful close-fitting, high-necked white lace dress with close-ups. /end ID

[greytern]

this one took me 1,5 years details + process under the cut!