#Source of fiber

[curekadigital]

True Elements Quinoa 1kg

True Elements Quinoa provides all the essential amounts of nutrients that aid in improving skin, hair, and overall health and also boosts your immunity.

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[knickknackoftheday]

needle felted sardines

[uncanny-tranny]

Quick fiber arts tip: if you're knitting or crocheting or anything, get a book light. I've got one set up right behind me when I crochet, and it's so bright in a way that my lamp never is. It's made crocheting on darker yarns much easier, and I find that it strains my eyes less because I don't have to focus so hard on what I'm doing because I can actually see what I'm doing.

[balkanradfem]

I keep thinking everyone knows the exact same information as me, but since I'm about to make more posts about textiles and clothing, as I'm reading the book on them, I'm going to write down some basic information, just in case it's not very common, because a lot of this I only gathered recently. If I get something wrong please correct me in a kind way!

So where does the clothing come from, and how do we make it? During most of the history, textiles were made by women, from natural materials; flax, wool, cotton, silk, jute. Recently we started using more synthetic materials, like acrylic, polyester, nylon, spandex. If you want to make clothing from the natural materials, like wool or cotton, they first need to be processed, cleaned and combed, then spun into yarn, or thread. Spinning is the process where women manage to pull a thin part of the material and spin the fibres into one consistent, firm thread. It's super impressive to watch them do it and I have no idea how they manage to make it consistent, I've not yet tried to do it myself.

Once the thread is done, it can be made into a textile by knitting, crochet, or weaving. There are also other more complex, decorative methods, like tatting or lacing.

For knitting, you need two needles, or a special circular needle, or, there are also knitting machines, which you can use to make woolen fabric. For weaving, you need a loom. For crochet, you need a crochet hook. While knitting and weaving can be done by a machine, crochet can only be done by hand. Woven fabrics are firm, sturdy, durable, and not stretchy, while knit fabric is the most stretchy and soft. I'm not sure about crochet since I only have one crochet garment, but mine is very sturdy!

All of these methods were historically done by women; families were able to grow flax plants close to their homes, and women would then create linens, woven textiles made from processed flax, which was used to make sheets and clothing. Linen was specifically useful in keeping people clean, since it's very good at absorbing moisture. Used as an under-garment, it was capable of absorbing sweat, and protecting the outer layers, which were not washed. Experiments have shown that frequently changing into clean linen was more effective at keeping clean than showering and then putting on the same clothing back on.

Women's ability to create clothing was sadly exploited, and women were even banned to sell it commercially, or from competing at the commercial market, but their husbands were allowed to profit off of their craft.

In the USA, cotton was the most produced material, however for this too people were enslaved and exploited; cotton took human labour to grow, harvest and process, it also required a lot of water, and caused destruction of environment, because of the chemicals used in it's growth, and the unsustainability of monocrops.

Creating a piece of clothing out of textiles, or sewing, is a process that still cannot be completely automated; while you can use a sewing machine, you cannot make a machine that would produce a whole garment out of textiles. No mass-produced piece of clothing was sewn by a machine, it always has to be made by a human being. This is why a lot of the sewing labour is currently outsourced to third-world countries and companies use modern slavery in order to create fast fashion; there is no machine that can do it, so by the rules of capitalism, the companies are trying to get that labour as cheap as possible, often at the cost of human lives.

We didn't use to have as many garments as we do today, in the 18th century people would have two outfits, one for normal days of the week, and one for Sunday. The clothing they owned was usually made to fit them exactly, either by a female member of the family, or a seamstress, and these garments were made to last them for decades. As clothing became cheaper to buy than to make at home, and more of it became mass-produced, people started acquiring more of it, but also using it for lesser period of time. This would eventually grow into a bigger problem, due to the amount of chemicals and labour used to grow, process, dye and sew the garments, and the amount of waste we were starting to accumulate.

Introduction of synthetic materials, like acrylic, made the yarn and the textiles much cheaper, however it lacks the important properties natural materials have. Do you ever notice how synthetic garments sometimes continue smelling bad even after you wash them? That is because they'll absorb sweat, but become hydrophobic when wet, meaning they will take in your sweat, but refuse to let it go once they're in the water. This means that the longer you have them, the worst their stink becomes. This, of course, can be hidden by the generous use of scented fabric softener, but it won't exactly make the garment clean. This information I've learned recently, but it helped me identify what were the most synthetic pieces of clothing I had. Acrylic clothing had also proven to shed 1.5 more microplastics than any other polyester when put into the washing machine.

Having our clothing grown, processed, spun, woven/knit, and then sewn far out of sight, it's possible to lose the sight of where it came from, or how it's made. Only by trying to do it yourself, or learning closely about the process can one learn to appreciate what a monumental task it is, to create fabric, or a garment. Other than the synthetic textiles, of which I still know very little of, all of the natural clothing is a product of plants and animals, it takes land, farming, agriculture and water to grow the plants, raise the animals, and then labour to process and spin the fibres. It's also something people used to do in their gardens, inside of their homes, something that was normal for women to do, and to trade for anything else they needed, saving them from having to work for wages. Women making fabric was always to the benefit of everyone around them, while m*n taking over the industry and doing it commercially, ultimately brought slave labour to a lot of people, cheap and low quality garments to the select few, and money to the hands of the exploiters.

Being curious about clothing and what becomes of it, is a big benefit to the environment and the future of the earth! Knowing what the textile industry is doing, and how does it affect the planet, can be a great motivator to try and sew, or upcycle and mend clothing, or create garments. It's presented to us as something women were forced to do in the past, and it's connected to 'feminine hobbies', but in actuality, it is power to create something humans cannot do without. Women in the past used it's power too, whenever they could. And we are the only ones who ever used this power for good.

[hisbutleronhiatus]

It has been 29 days since the Kuroshitsuji hiatus was announced.

Today, Undertaker had a delicious afternoon snack of packing peanuts.

Credit: @reine-du-sourire

[sydscompostbucket]

syd and carmy are very autistic coded to me. i can’t be the only one who sees it?

[justgarb]

A collection of videos on harvesting/prepping natural fibers and making cordage, from experimental archaeologist and prehistoric textile expert Sally Pointer. I've developed a bit of a fixation with picking wild plants on my travels and trying to make small bits of cord on the fly. Also ordered some horseradish root now that I know the greens are edible

More under the cut

This woman is a treasure

[unityrain24]

hate when boot companies are like "we are Environmentally Friendly because we don't use real animal leather!" What do you mean environmentally friendly!!! that means you are using synthetic fake leather!! plastic is NOT environmentally friendly!!!!!

[amimere]

[ID in ALT]

my båtrye is done and has been handed in! nothing more to do now than hope for kind examinators

final size ended up being 170x117 cm and around 4.5 kilos, not quite as big as the historical ones, but that will be rectified once i add the third width im weaving on the side :D

[curekadigital]

True Elements 7-In-1 Seeds Mix – 250gm

True Elements 7-In-1 Seeds Mix is a great source of plant-based protein as it has seven protein-rich seeds and soynuts.

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[badjohnspeakeasy]

Presuppose that the sentient strawberry is about as strong as a creature the size of a strawberry. It doesn't grow, and its attacks are harmless, despite their killing intent. It's like two inches tall, so it's safe to assume that it's not going to beat you up.

It is extremely unfriendly and hostile, and convinced it can and should kill you. It keeps screaming special attack names and ineffectively attacking you, and no amount of time or communication changes its behavior. You cannot negotiate with the strawberry.

[knickknackoftheday]

rooster needle minder

[melisssg99]

[lacewise]

Britannica has updated his bio and Wikipedia locked the page so all the editors could argue about whether being a convicted felon is notable… which I realize is the point of Wikipedia but some of the arguments against are… incredibly unprofessional and disconnected from reality, especially since the other major online encyclopedia DID IT ALREADY—it’s both hilarious and why I don’t use Wikipedia as a source.

If people take a day to celebrate your conviction and you don’t consider that notable enough for the first paragraph, I’m perceiving that as a bias and moving to a different, more grounded source.

There is literally a phrase describing this behaviour: burying the lede. When things like this happen (and they do fairly regularly) I see Wikipedia as its own dimension before moving along.

[vagabondfromkanto]

//Holy shit I just found my old Junketsu!Ryuko blog which I forgot I even had. MAN I was better at being fucked up than I ever remembered (and than I could play now, honestly).

[runningheadless]

When im making a meal i think WWSD: What Would Senshi Do?