Dwellers, your moderators have left you a welcome gift. These adornments are yours to use for the event. The fade reverberates with anticipation of your creations.

How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard. 

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

This is a very old, but almost dead, textile craft called sprang. It's not exactly weaving - I'd say it's closer to braiding in that it only has warp threads, no weft. I'm using some metal rods as shed sticks, and also to keep the holes open enough to be fishnet-y.

My original goal was to make fingerless fishnet gloves/sleeves, but I think the material's going to be way too wide for that; it has a LOT of horizontal stretch. It's hard to tell exactly how much with it still tensioned, but if I'm lucky I might be able to make a short tube top of it!

Oh! One last thing (for now). If you like the dividers I used in my OC masterposts, you can use them too! Here they are together:

They're transparent, and have a subtle glow around the edges.

thaisha with her hands clasped together: ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID????? kindest regards,

julien scowling: medieval knight raising the visor on his helmet just so you can see him rolling his eyes.

occtis looking deeply upset after his death: diversity win! your friend survived the lab accident and is now something distinctly nonhuman.

vaelus putting her fingers together and staring intensely at the funeral: if you ever feel stupid or weak or powerless, just remember that I, am not. And I am out there, very dangerous and I am looking for you. Good luck

thaisha putting her hand on occtis's shoulder in the first episode: "yikes! / I'll see u tomorrow kiddo / always carry a switchblade and ibuprofen."

The art of mindless embroidery.