be a stylish witch

and exomis:

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.

The only modification I made to the pattern that's demonstrated is that I took the largest bottom layer, and added about an inch to its total length so that I would have a gap between both halves and could "close" it like you see above. I used a large pad of manila drawing paper, and just made my proportions as big as I could on the paper--I think I was somewhere near 24 inches on the longest side of the biggest piece, and the book is about 12 inches square.

It does hold objects well! Nothing big or bulky, but I usually have stickers, postcards, pressed flowers, envelopes and stamps in here; I emptied it mostly out because I'm thinking about bringing it to the hobbit larp in the fall. It is a bit delicate--it is just paper--but it's also really fun!

Because the pattern is modular, you could basically stop or continue at any stage--mine is five layers deep, but you could stop at three, or continue to ten, if you could find big enough paper.

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

http://purelinenenvy.ca

https://classicfabrics.nl/

Sells fabric for re-enactment, the wools are not cheap but the linen is very reasonably priced and they have some light ones that are great for blouses.

https://www.dutchtailorette.com/

Same as classic fabrics sells fabrics and haberdashery for re-enactment. The wools are still not very cheap but cheaper than classic fabric but on the other hand they don’t always have everything in stock

https://www.aktivstoffe.de/

General fabric store with a very diverse range from softshell, to some very good waterproofs to cottons and everything in between. They have a very broad range of wools from fairly expensive to the cheapest I’ve found online that is not mixed up with something else and of good quality.

https://www.textielstad.nl/

General fabric store with a fairly broad range of linens and linen/cotton/viscose mixes. They also have a very light silk cotton mix that works very well as lining but doesn’t break your budget. The color range of that one is very small though. The rest of their silks are expensive but they do sell liberty silks if you want something that pops. Their pure wools tend to be expensive but occasionally they manage to snatch the end of a stock that they sell much cheaper.

https://driessenstoffen.nl

General fabric store, they are very very cheap in general and so is their linen. The color range is pretty broad but the linen itself is on the heavy side. Great for a pair of summer pants or a skirt but less so for a blouse. They also have some really really cheap boiled wool but the quality is honestly very meh.

https://www.chienvert.com/fr/

https://thefabricsales.com/

End of stock reseller, they sell quality suiting and coating wools for usually no more than 24 euro’s the meter, linens for usually no more than 20 and often less, their silks vary more wildly but they usually have at least a few that are around 25 and right now they have silk lining fabric at 15 euro the meter which is frankly a steal. They are an end of stock reseller however, so if you waited too long and its gone, it will remain gone.

https://echtleer.nl/