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Most recent progress pic of my glorious loon sweater. It’s a little old, it has sleeves now!

Tegnap fennmaradtam ejjel, hogy ezt befejezzem, mert ma at akartam adni baratnomnek. Imadom, szerintem nagyon szep lett.

#cross stitch

scribefindegil

My instructor back in bookbinding school used to say that the mark of a competent craftsperson isn't that you never make mistakes, it's that you know how to fix them. And I think about that a lot.

medievaljournalist

every bad thing in the entire world is due to the dark sorcerer if we just kill the dark sorcerer i bet everything will be amazing something amazing will happen

cyclicalaberration

Okay I don't know if there's a correct place to go looking for resources about. Any of this. But Tumblr is as good a place to ask as any for something both specific and very very broad.

I'm really interested in learning more about specifically north american indigenous textiles and textile production because so many resources discussing textile production and textile history completely disregard north america, but I have no idea where to even begin. I'll go haunt my college library and the city's central library at some point soon, but i'm wondering if anyone knows any interesting resources on native textiles, especially those written by native people, off the top of their heads?

I keep seeing fascinating things being mentioned in passing (Textiles: The Whole story... You're a wonderful book but what do you MEAN you don't even have any photos of the garments you mentioned with the porcupine quills used for emboridery and beadwork that you do not cite a direct source for and DOES NOT APPEAR ONLINE under any search terms) and I am looking for a jumping off point.

zooarchaeologyatdinner

Book recommendations for Coast Salish textiles:

Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth; by Leslie H. Tepper, Janice George, Willard Joseph

The Teachings of Mutton; by Alison Ariss, Andrea Fritz, Chepximiya Siyam Chief Dr. Janice George, Danielle Morsette, Debra Qwasen Sparrow, Eliot White-Hill Kwulasultun, Jared Qwustenuxun Williams, Kerrie Charnley, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa, Michael Pavel, saꬷamitća Susan Pavel, Senaqwila Wyss, Snumithia’ Violet Elliott, Tuwuxwul’t-hw Tyrone Elliott, Xweliqwiya Rena Point Bolton

If you can find it, the digital book: Coast Salish Weaving by Chepximiya Siyam (Chief Janice George) and Leslie Tepper is supposed to be amazing.

Child's Pullover (Fair Isle, c. 1913), Shetland Museum & Archives.

During a visit to Fair Isle in the summer of 1913, the Reverend [Robert Logan] and his wife Annie purchased the pullover for [their son] John from one of the island’s knitters. The garment is a good example of the type of traditional knitting done in Fair Isle for at least a century before, and prior to the global fashion boom in fair isle-style garments for men and women in the early 1920s The pullover is made of white hand-spun wool, most likely from sheep born and raised on Fair Isle. The colours are somewhat typical of the earliest phase of the craft: red, dyed from madder or a mixture of madder and several local dye sources; very dark blue, a strong indigo dyebath that required dipping and oxidation numerous times; medium blue, from a weaker indigo dyebath; yellow, made from various native plants; and natural white.

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uglyfruit

gweu

it's been a while but i'm finally back into knitting! i've recently made this Skyrim themed cardigan based on the landscape of Tel Mithryn and its surrounding views. this one was a lot of fun to design and get everything lined up!

knitted on 3.5mm, 4.0mm, and 5.0mm needles with Drops Nepal yarn

perpetualpigeons

[ID: a handknit jumper. the front features a seal sitting on a rock in the sea, with fish falling into its open mouth. On the back is a bucket, throwing the fish up and over the shoulders to the seal. end ID]

"Sealed with a Fish", from Wild Animal Knits by Melinda Coss. Knit with John Arbon Devonia and Devon Naturals DK yarn.

This took much longer than usual to knit -- I don't know if I was just spending less time knitting, or if it was the complex intarsia (the waves involved 10+ balls of yarn 😭). I'm really happy with it, it was a lot of fun to knit, and I can't wait to wear it (in a few months time...)

darkelfchicksick

big news for people who are me

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,000-year-old Viking textile production center near Aarhus, revealing large-scale cloth making and trade.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

Researchers found an area where flax was prepared before workers turned the plant into linen. They also uncovered 82 pit houses, small sunken buildings linked with Viking workshops. Many held spindle whorls and loom weights, showing cloth production took place on a large scale.