These Funky Little Guys Fascinate Me

I definitely think most if not all robe production is in house! They have ancient textile traditions that are preserved and practiced with the same reverence as any other skill. Jedi are taught very early up to respect their robes as valuable possessions, indicators of the path to which they’re dedicated, as well as a vital opportunity to express individuality.

They definitely have ancient, ethical sources for their silk, wool, leather, etc (this is making me think about the agricorps, your favorite!) and I like to think they maintain close ties with the people who raise the animals or cultivate the plants used for the materials. Imagine retired Jedi moving out to the mid rim to raise space sheep 🥹

I’m admittedly very uninformed when it comes to textiles and fabrics (when I cosplay I just use what I can get from 2nd hand and scrap shops with varying degrees of success) but I imagine the Jedi have an expansive selection of weights, textures, colors etc. Earth tones are in style during the final years of the Republic, but even in a sea of browns and tans, there are endless variations of warms and cools and silhouettes and embroidered details.

Speaking of embroidered details, I like to think that it’s pretty common for Jedi to incorporate patterns or motifs into their robes. While there’s millennia of traditional designs available (which carry different meanings/associations) there are many Jedi craftspeople who are resources for assisting in the creation of new designs to commemorate achievements or honor lineages, as a couple examples. For Jedi who are appointed to stations within the order which typically encourage signaling that station via embroidered robes, it’s expected that they’ll dedicate time to hand embroider their robes themselves (ie I headcanon Jocasta embroidered her own robes with the Ansata pattern).

and @spacepolyester:

I’ve thought a lot about how Narah would respond to these perspectives—probably with a mix of subtle flair and a touch of mischief.

"Attachments are as forbidden as holding your breath. Have you tried it lately? Who stopped you?"

She is often confronted by individuals who leap to the conclusion that Jedi are indifferent and "out of touch" because they believe Jedi cut themselves off from everything that makes life rich. Narah has been called "brainwashed," "heartless," a "liar," and "manipulative" more times than she can count, usually by those who get weirdly angry when their assumptions about the Jedi aren’t confirmed. (Narah finds the irony amusing.)

fully plausible to me that most people who don't live on Coruscant (or another planet w a Jedi temple on it) could very easily go through their whole lives without ever meeting a Jedi. less likely that they'd never run into anyone force sensitive but again 'force sensitive' could just mean 'weirdly intuitive' in practice

this is why it's not that implausible to me that as of the original trilogy a lot of people don't believe the Force is a real thing - even when the Jedi were relatively abundant i can believe that a lot of people were like 'oh there's a religious order who believe they have magical mind powers? that's neat I guess'. add in some imperial propaganda about how the Jedi and yeah sure. i can buy that within 20 years everyone's just pivoted away from believing in the force

I believe their romance to be important to both of their characters, but there's a reason neither of them asked the other to stay. Because both of them are duty bound people and I think that is what needs to be the most important conclusion. Their romance can't define the characters they are. They can be affected by it for sure, just NOT defined.

and in 'fire across the galaxy', quizzy goes: