No. Not. Nope. Negative. Rational.

225 Movies Dance Mashup with "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa by Renato Gaiarsa

Ancient Roman mosaic from a villa bedroom.

Villa Romana del Casale

F1 grey wolf x poodle crosses bred by Erik Zimen as part of a study on dog domestication. 

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

And this store is in Canada if you need to avoid the insane markup from the US right now-

Lekythos with Depiction of Eos and Tithonus, Achilles Painter, 450-430 BCE.

Alabastron pottery decorated in the Six technique on white ground: youths and horses under a tree. Graffito inscriptions in field. Excavated in Eretria, attributed to the Psiax painter, 520BCE-500BCE

we were just as smart then as we are now

Cape Barren Geese (Cereopsis novaehollandiae), family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Phillip Island, VIC, Australia