#making linen

[balkanradfem]

Woman grows flax and makes linen from it!

(I was crying every time she complained about flax not growing in 3 months as it was expected, she planted it in late summer instead of early spring and expected it to grow in December T_T)

[alexander-norkat]

The Saint

[lilislegacy]

idk about you guys but i’m really happy the wardrobe people made the decision to put poseidon in light blue linen instead of hawaiian shirts

linen is good. linen is very, very good.

[marzipanandminutiae]

how does antiquing work in Star Trek?

like, okay, there's no scarcity Because Replicators. great! except you can't replicate an antique, not the real thing. probably some AMAZING reproductions- 24th-century historical costumers must be having the time of their lives, because as great as modern synthetic baleen is, imagine what you could do with a machine that literally replicates the exact molecular structure of the same! or that extinct flax that made medieval linen so great! -but I know antique collectors. there's nothing like the feeling of something you know so many other people have loved for centuries

is it like a barter system? do you go to the antique "shop" with things passed down in your family or found in the equivalent of a Facebook buy-nothing group, and trade what you have for what the history nerd running the place has based on your respective interests?

is Brimfield like a giant swap meet? could I go with, say...a big bag full of my grandmother's chunky 1950s costume jewelry and trade it for 1880s blouse waists because the stall owner wants the former and I want the latter? equivalent value wouldn't matter- what's value, beyond how much you treasure something? nobody's got rent to make or bills to pay, after all

do people become antiques "dealers" just for the thrill of the hunt and the pleasure of matching an object to someone who will love it? you don't have to work, after all; you can spend your whole life searching the world for rare treasures if that brings you joy

this is a nice thought

[skitskatdacat63]

I was showing my mom various eras of Nando, AND SHE SAID PUPPY DOG MCHONDA ERA LOOKS LIKE PUSS IN BOOTS HAHAHAHHAA

I'm not gonna be able to stop thinking about this comparison for a while 😭😭😭😭😭

[the-merry-otter]

Ok so, myself & housemates are gonna host have a pirate/ocean themed Halloween party right? And I’m like oh I kinda wanna do a Will Turner cosplay for the hell of it, and also especially because his red shirt from At Worlds End is so deliciously gorgeous.

It can’t be that hard to make, right?

[manicpanicpixienightmare]

I’m the kind of guy who will scour the internet for exactly the kind of pattern I want, find it, and then go “no I don’t need to buy patterns right now”

[lotshusband]

i’ve been suuuch a little housewife today. swept and mopped, did the dishes, cleaned the bathroom, baked bread, made sandwiches, changed the litter boxes, changed the linens, tidied my room… what an industrious young man……..

[flintandpyrite]

I did have a marvelous time at the fabric store here which is run by a woman whose family escaped the holocaust when she was 5 years old. She is such a beautiful elegant person and she has fantastic taste except that she doesn’t like yellow and does not stock any yellow fashion fabric. Sadly. This is a printed 100% linen called “Lady of Shallott” that I am thinking about making into a simple dress (like this one?) Any pattern recommendations? I have about 3.5 yards. Also, I should definitely wash it before I try to sew with it, right?

[tyrhinosaurus]

It's lace time again

Working on something for the local show - idk if the old ladies will accept something with a ribbon through it coz it wont be entirely made of lace but we shall see. I've got 20 days and more hubris than my body can contain if I think itll get done on time (I'm blaming the headaches on it).

Never done anything with 28 pairs before, the number of bobbins (pegs) is ridiculous and not really fitting on my pillow rip.

Any spare wishes for speedy work will be much appreciated

[thegodwhocums]

oh shit motherfuckers, february second is THIS FRIDAY which will be my TWELVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of workign with D holy SHIT

[viciousewe]

And this is my current spinning project! It’s some rya lambs wool hand dyed by @milkweedman blended with linen, silk and camel down and spun up into a fingering weight 3ply! Too bad I uh. Lost the bearing for my eel wheel so now I have to wait for a new one to get shipped to me before I can complete this last little chunk. It potentially won’t be the end of this project I will then have to spin a merino silk and linen 3 ply in plain white as a contrast color for a color work sweater. If I decide I want to make another colorwork sweater I’m still not in love with the technique and it would make an immensely pretty lace shawlette or scarf.

[whetstonefires]

If I was going to go back in time to disrupt history with a single technology the temptation would be incredible to make it knitting.

Like I don't know how much that would really do to alleviate human suffering en masse so it's not the heroic option like idk an understanding of germ theory on the level necessary to improve child mortality in the long term? But it would be so cool to see what happened.

Because knitting in the form we know it is basically a 20th century invention.

I hate that! It doesn't seem right at all, huh?? Knitting is over 1000 years old, that's all we know we don't have the artifacts to say more precisely than that, but it spent most of that time being pretty exclusively a means of making socks, and not a viral sensation of a sock method, either. The purl stitch was figured out and then forgotten again.

That's nothing. That's like 0 time, in the history of string.

And then, almost every knitting technique of any serious elaboration, all the complicated stitches and the cable knits and all that: less than 150 years old. Cannot believe this. Wild. What is humanity.

Anyway I just want to see what would happen if you went back to before the proliferation of the loom and taught knitting to a bunch of different communities across the mesolithic world. Some of them would keep it up, if you seeded it widely.

Knitting is way more nomadism-friendly than weaving, so at the very least the early proliferation of knit fabrics would alter the economic balance of pastoral and agricultural communities. i feel like it would also have interesting impacts on the fishing net.

[sarishim]

gabriel rakesh / mutuals may reblog/interact <3

[mika-makes-things]

I have half a dozen projects on my to do list but I think what I really need is a fourth pirate shirt. I think that would fix me

[petzel]

finished my patchwork jacket 😁😁