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Fiber Classification

Fiber is a hairlike strand of material, a substance that is extremely long in relationship to its width. Fibers are flexible and may be spun into yarn and made into fabrics through textile processes like spinning, weaving, and felting.

Fibers naturally occur in plants and animals. More than half of the fibers produced are natural fibers. Natural fibers can be cellulose, derived from plants, or protein, derived from animals. Some examples of natural fibers are cotton, linen, flax (cellulose) and hair, fur, silk and wool (protein.)

Other fibers are manufactured. Some are made in a laboratory from naturally derived materials like rayon and many are completely produced through the magic of chemistry. For the purpose of this class, we will refer to manufactured fibers as synthetic fibers. The most widely used kinds of synthetic fibers are nylon, polyester, acrylic and olefin.

Fiber identification is possible through a burn test. Check out this video for a safe look at what this process is like.

Here are a few links to some of the other videos we watched during the fiber classification lecture:

from fiber to fabric: vintage video from the 40s showing how a variety of fibers are harvested and processed to make fibers, including a great introduction to how the weaving process works

cast nylon video, also vintage, talking about nylon and its historical importance and general prevalence in our daily lives

historic rope walk video we watched

how to make rope by hand video (the more complex version that kind of feels like braiding, doing both twisting steps simultaneously)

images from top:

Fiber Classification Infographic

Wool infographic showing animal sources and then a diagram of how wool is processed once sheered from the animals body.

Image of historical rope making from the depths of the internet

another historical image, this time of a Salish woman spinning wool from in the Pacific Northwest

Wallace Carothers, the inventor of nylon.

pic of some of the plied samples you made in class

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So very cool

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Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

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~Some Irish History~

I'll never forget years ago on IG when I talked about the black Irish alot of wyte folks got mad & denied the history.. Whether they denied it or not history still stands with black folk being in Ireland historically. For example the leprechaun myth is a story to cover up the history of the black pygmies in ireland.. Pair these with how a lot of black irish got shipped out during the last 500 years & ended up in the carribean islands specifically Jamaica.And just recently I can across an article stating how ancient Irish were black with blue eyes. This would match the recent cheddar man of Europe who held the same description. Many civilizations held figures with blue eyes in the past. Above some of these nations were from Peru,Egypt,India,Turkey & Sumer. Only 1-type of people can be found in all these places historically🙃[Black folks].. Also these people were said to be seafarers. A note u should take historically is when they talk about a sea faring race is usually alludes to black people. With the word Moor applying to black folks, this same word also applied to ships & water traveling which helps draw in the connection. A fact I often show is that when the colonizer wants to hide your history he often changes your nation/tribal history to include monsters. Changing a story to include monsters automatically erases any true history in the eyes of modern folk.. One group from Ireland is called the Fomorians & they were said to be the original irish and a seafaring race.. Just like with revisionist history these dark giant monsters were defeated by a noble group of white elves/ civilization called Tuatha Dé Danann .. Me already showing the concept of elves stem from what they now call dark elves & these people were black folks of the past

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Some more Europe & North Africa black history.. Sorry this is an old screenshot so I don't have the book title

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Showing more proof of Fomorians from the 1st post being black. This time adding the Firbolg most likely being black as well.. The last sentence in the last photo also states how the Tuatha De Danaan allegedly went underground & became a population of elves etc.. This is the exact thing I showed happened to black folks as seen above . So this Tuatha De Danaan group may have been an aboriginal group that was whitewashed thru history. Definitely will be researching further

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A shout or ring shout is an ecstatic, transcendent religious ritual, first practiced by African slaves in the West Indies and the United States, in which worshipers move in a circle while shuffling and stomping their feet and clapping their hands. Despite the name, shouting aloud is not an essential part of the ritual.

The ring shout was Christianized and practiced in some African American churches into the 20th century, and it continues to the present among the Gullah people of the Sea Islands and in the African Church.

A more modern form, known still as a “shout” (or “praise break”), is practiced in many African churches and non-African Pentecostal churches to the present day.

“Shouting” often took place during or after a Christian prayer meeting or worship service. Men and women moved in a circle in a counterclockwise direction, shuffling their feet, clapping, and often spontaneously singing or praying aloud. In Jamaica and Trinidad the shout was usually performed around a special second altar near the center of a church building. In the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, shouters formed a circle outdoors, around the church building itself.

In some cases, enslaved people retreated into the woods at night to perform shouts, often for hours at a time, with participants leaving the circle as they became exhausted.In the twentieth century some African-American churchgoers in the United States performed shouts by forming a circle around the pulpit, in the space in front of the altar, or around the nave.

Ring shouts were sometimes held for the dead. This custom has been practiced by traditional bands of carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The origins of the ring shout are usually assumed to be derived from African dance, and scholars usually point out the presence of melodic elements such as call-and-response singing and heterophony, as well as rhythmic elements such as tresillo and an “hamboned” rhythm, and aesthetic elements such as counter-clockwise dancing and ecstasy,which makes ring shouts similar to ceremonies among people like the Ibos, Yorubas, Ibibios, Efiks, Bahumono and Bakongo people.

Some scholars have suggested that the ritual may have originated among enslaved Muslims from West Africa as an imitation of tawaf, the mass procession around the Kaaba that is an essential part of the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. If so, the word “shout” may come from Arabic shawṭ, meaning “a single run”, such as a single circumambulation of the Kaaba, or an open space of ground for running.

According to musicologist Robert Palmer, the first written accounts of the ring shout date from the 1840s. The stamping and clapping in a circle was described as a kind of “drumming,” and 19th-century observers associated it with the conversion of slaves to Christianity

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What happens when you completely give up?

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Tremella mesenterica

Witch’s Butter

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Gorgeous

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Underwear is not underwear if you only wear underwear

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Some stranger somewhere still remembers you because you were kind to them when no one else was.

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Lately, I've been so sad that tears seem to be dried up. I catch myself not breathing, during times the stress feels as if it will crush me.

The state of the world makes me so sad 😔

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Dash grabbing for my hand, awwww #dash #doodle #doggidaddi (at Sandy, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLOpcJeB3C5/?igshid=29no2asuow42

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