Eyeballs

One of my ideas is that over the last 25k years Jedi have domesticated/bred some kind of wool-producing animal (maybe a space-alpaca if their temples are often in the mountains?). Also maybe some kind of textile plant. The animal naturally has brown fur and the plant has some kind of cream fuzz – hence why their robes are the way they are. Some Jedi will dye the textiles different colors but that's their prerogative and the usual Temple produce is undyed.

Also love the idea of Jedi using embroidery to cover holes and slashes in their robes. A neat little trick that keeps them from being thrown out of fancy diplomatic parties for looking like hobos But also keeps them from having to throw away robes after the first encounter with a bounty hunter. Outsiders think Jedi with the most heavily embroidered robes are the highest-ranked but they're just the ones most stubborn about throwing out clothes.

Padawans don't have the heavily embroidered robes but that's usually because they're constantly outgrowing them. Or a few padawans do have heavily embroidered robes but that's because those robes are hand-me-downs.

Also Jedi don’t throw out old clothes – if scraps aren’t big enough to be used as rags or what have you they can be woven into these big soft rugs and similar things.

midterm means going back to my roots of drawing a gazillion outfits for my Characters 🫶

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Ducky ate too many meloms!

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Closest match: Melangyna compositarum genome assembly, chromosome: X Common name: Matt-Backed Melangyna