I would rather be knitting in a cave

And her sister Phthalo Blue, another slam dunk for copper!

Don't forget about her distant cousin, Tyrian Purple

#i keep waiting for someone to address the '18th century looms were huge' claim#like sure some were#but the fact that textile mills had been invented doesn't mean that all home weaving ceased#indeed people still weave for fun or profit in this the 21st century#smaller looms were still being built and used in the 18th century just as smaller looms are still being built and used today#and that's without considering the existence of inkle/tape/band looms which were/are used for making narrower woven ribbons for trimming etc#small 18th century looms absolutely exist

My wife did a lot of hand crafts while we were dating. After we got engaged, my father piped up that at least she didn't have a spinning wheel. We put it in the doorway the first time my parents came to visit.

Fibercrafts.

is it normal for social battery to look like this

Emil is my "yup this is real wool" detector. It's only real wool that he goes this nuts over

it is soooooo dangerous* how much crossover there is between different fiber arts. at their core theyre all just twisty twisty makes long string and twisty twisty plus over under makes fabric

update: this was sticks two days ago

So what ARE your opinions on field vs water retting? I’m gonna farm some fiber this year

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING LIKE

And you'd be far less likely to lose techniques to time. Like, there's a bunch of stuff we don't know about even just flax processing, because most of the people who were insanely good at it lived before the world wars. The world wars messed up linen production at scale in a lot of Europe, and people didn't have the resources to get back to it until after a lot of the experts had already died of old age.

@systlin if I could make a formal introduction: @dreamingdormouse is one of my best friends from college who is a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge on many topics but esp. fiber craft, using spreadsheets in novel ways, and fantasy literature.

Got bit by a new bird species today!

Absolutely! I love the ones that bite because I am like "very good, do not go gently, rage rage and all that. You are a survivor and I am proud of you!"

Where you would expect to find needles!