Yarnmom

Professional Procraftinator I'm not good at tagging but I'm trying to get better.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

So many fiber arts have difficulty levels that are less about your level of skill than your ability to tolerate extreme multi-step processes.

[moethh]

see one of the biggest things i dislike about the idea of a “trad wife” is that it’s not even “traditional” or “how things always used to be”.

this lifestyle only came about after the industrial revolution and was really only used by the middle and upper classes. before that, men and women would work together. women weren’t sitting around all day taking care of the home while their husbands were away—they were together as a family.

additionally one of the biggest benefits of having children was that, when they were old enough, they could help out with the work however they could. the idea that only men did all of the work is absurd.

[margindoodles2407]

why are you booing her she's right

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

there's also the fact that traditional housework was like actual work until the industrial revolution made everything easy.

Doing laundry in the 1800s? took you literally all day of boiling water, fetching more water to boil, and handling various (sometimes dangerous) chemicals. And all those clothes you were washing? You made most of them if you weren't rich enough to buy them. Which meant you were fixing every rip and hole until you had a dress or petticoat or pair of pants made of patches like the Ship of Theseus.

Cooking dinner? Took literal hours of watching a fire that could literally burn the house down for most of history.

Everyone also owned animals, if they had space for them. And those animals needed to be fed and watered and have their barn/shed/stable/coop or whatever they were housed in kept clean.

You'd have a garden to keep watered if you had any space at all too.

[theriu]

I read a really interesting point once about how chores became "easier": new, modern conveniences were touted as making womens' lives "easier" and giving them more time.

The problem was that everyone still expected them to be busy. To be available. To be doing things. Which means that "spare time" just got filled up with MORE things to do. And those new things tended to be more individualistic and less social. While washing took longer, women could do it together, or chat with each other over the back garden gate while hanging up the washing, etc.

This isn't just a problem women face, though. We, all of us as a culture (at least here in the US), modernized ourselves into doing more and more, faster and faster, with less and less togetherness and interaction. Is it any wonder research shows we're dealing with a epidemic of lonelines?

[little-theatre-fairy]

That's what I'm saying. Doing laundry takes 2 mins of sorting and 5 of hanging up for me. It took one entire day every week for my grandma.

Why is it that I feel like I have no time? Why do I feel like I'm always busy and behind? What happens to all that time we save?

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.

[bees-of-passage]

@mllekurtz

[goldenlandfiascos]

[gonzos-humansona]

Woman in front of me in line at the caffe nero changed my life yesterday when she ordered a prosciutto sandwich but pronounced "prosciutto" like it rhymed with mosquito. "Pruh-squee-toe."

I heard this person say "uhhhh yeah can I get a prosquito sandwich please?" and I knew I'd never be the same. Prosquito. Prosquito. Its everything to me. I haven't been able to stop saying that lmfao. This is my spinch. This is my bagel and creem cheems. This is my ranibow sprimkle.

friends and family are already tired of me going crazy over prosquito but its so special to me

[angelicdewdrop]

[nabsthevulture]

We need more encouragement on this board for the beetles so if you guys have anything nice to say to the meat puppies I will print it out and show it to them lol

[nabsthevulture]

They deserve the world i love them so much 😭

[nabsthevulture]

The board grows and you have the beetles thanks

[pacificremains]

You're all doing very well!

[great-and-small]

The beetles are absolutely glowing; It’s clear the encouragement is having an amazing effect on their self-esteem! Go little rockstars go 🤩

[gossamermouse]

I have never seen such healthy glistening before! Oh my, what good care you are taking of yourselves! Keep it up and you will dazzle even the grumpiest of those you encounter! Go, small friends, go!

[senadimell]

If I have learned anything about natural dyeing, it's that medieval european peasants should have WAY more yellow clothing than you see in the movies

[sabertoothwalrus]

[percistent]

So wait, The Notebook is just a story about a woman cheating on her fiancée with a guy she dated for a few months when she was 17? This is the love story evey woman has been obsessed with since I was a teenager?

Honestly, it explains so much about the state of modern women.

[blade-liger-4ever]

Never before in my memory have I been so glad to be so ignorant of a title of a fictional work.

[victusinveritas]

Like this sort of thing? Follow sluttyprimarysource on Threads and think about reading Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson.

[gossamermouse]

There are 5 types of people in this world:

People who mix their chocolate milk up with a spoon, as is tradition.

People who mix their chocolate milk up with a fork because it is more efficient for incorporating the chocolate and milk.

People who mix their chocolate milk up with a (butter) knife or chopstick because its easier to clean (no curves, no sneaky additional surfaces for clingy junk) and they don't mind the extra stirring to save the washing effort.

People who buy chocolate milk already mixed so that they don't have to think about mixing. (outsourcing).

And people who are lactose intolerant. (whether you still drink the milk or not is between you and your bathroom.)

I am sure some of you are outliers out here with your milk frother chocolate milk, or your enchanted cow that dispenses choccy milk straight from the teat, or that one guy who is probably drip distilling milk and chocolate into some crazy new alcohol, but I need someone to turn choccy mill mixing into the new mbti.

Do you never question the mixing? You love the spoon? You've never dared? You thought of the fork one day and never spoke of it because you're a chocolate milk radical now? You just use that chopstick for everything, don't you? You inherited that mixing knife from Great-Aunt Susan and you like to make the pbj first and mix the choccy milk second? You buying the fancy brand of choccy milk now, organic and free-range or whatever nonregulated buzzword they put on it?

WHO ARE YOU? WHY DOES IT MATTER?!?! If you don't stand for your chocolate milk, will you fall for anything?

[squeakadeeks]

YEAH BABEY

after making so many things you hit a point where you think. you know what. at any given moment theres nothing stopping me from being Austin Powers. then at some point. You will be Austin Powers.

[gossamermouse]

This was such a mental adventure.

I saw the top pic and immediately my brain notices the jabot, the velour, the hair and glasses. "Austin Powers" I say to myself, but then realize the internet has changed and my references may no longer be what is being referenced. I scrolled up a wee-bit to check who, ah yes, its squeakadeeks. Maybe its a new OC where they accidentally channelled Austin Powers? Surely I don't remember Squeak being quite as old as me. I finally scroll further down and see the Yeah Babey!!! HOW IS THIS HAPPENING IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026?!? Which came along with a foggy calculation of how long ago Austin Powers came out.

But here we have a problem. See, I had just woken up. Austin Powers movies are parodies of the 60s/70s. I managed to completely forget when I was born and very briefly believed due to both misunderstandings that I was in my 60s and so was Squeak and I started having a moment in my head. But then scrolling further I was brought back to the real world by noticing all the pins and baubles and mentally acknowledging them as "flair" and I am back to the 90s/00s, okay whew. Mental breakdown averted, at least back to an actual experienced timeline.

And now I just want to know where you get your lace cause it LOOKS rather soft and comfy. Please tell me if you get the chance! (Even if its just to say it is in fact not soft and comfy, lace IS deceptive.)

[limbosava]

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

[staticandlove]

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

[ashestoashesjc]

[colorousme]

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

[clownsnake]

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

[jollysunflora]

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

[skullamity-deactivated20250823]

[crankyteapot]

[judgejudyofficial]

this website really has ruined me… i didnt catch the G, so i spent like 4 minutes scouring the second pic for thee Lucky Luciano 😭

[digitaldiscipline]

hand in unglovable hand

[pipis-took]

I got permission to draw @eedlitamm’s wonderful idea of Lord of the rings characters as Disney style animals, which are listed and described in this post, please go and check it out it’s amazing✨✨✨

Thanks again @eedlitamm for letting me draw your wonderful idea! I might do all characters in a different post later on! This was so so fun!!!

[transfem-monarchist-laura-rolla]

[yagamimi-aka-mimi-deactivated20]

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

[ama-kitkat123]

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

[penanatomy-studies]

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

[zheida]

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

[iascus]

Reblogging to spread awareness

[my-art-tutorial-blog]

the goldmine folks

[coastgods]

Please have a look at these archaeological references

Welcome to the Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage — The Digital Atlas developed by the EuroWeb research network documents a new vision of European history based on textiles: the vast material culture of textile production, trade, and consumption. Here you can explore the rich culture of more than 10.000 years of European textile heritage.