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[goodpark]

Jungsun Jung: Garden Nasturtium quilt

[skylark-spinner]

recent tablet weaving!

[medievaleftea]

Here my new one!

Berries with cream and caramel...

And here's the pattern:

https://pin.it/4xN8UXJmV

1000+ Inkle Loom Ideas | Tablet Weaving Patterns

Explore a variety of Inkle loom ideas for your next weaving project. Find inspiration for tablet weaving patterns and techniques on Pinteres

[aeide]

ok which one of you let your creature walk all over my warp:

[kaijuerotica]

do u wanna see the gromit sweater i knitted last year

[kaijuerotica]

[ukpuru]

Textile patterns from the Igbo women’s weaving industry at Akwete, now in southern Abia State. National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.

[parakavka]

豆柴あさのん🐻🦊YouTubeも見てね👹 on X: “器用に噛まれてます…🦊💦 https://t.co/5inJNgNsPn” / X

[wellwhiskey]

embroidery from peacockandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

[only-cat-memes]

[lamignonette]

[bring-your-own-water]

figured out the paper piecing software enough to start making a bunch of bread tag blocks. Unsure if the entire quilt is going to be bread tags or if I'm going to make some bread blocks. Could also be a junk drawer quilt. Much to think about

[bring-your-own-water]

Four more bread tags! Still have no clue the direction I'm going with this and its taken the back burner for the moment while I work on a commissioned quilt. I'll be back to it soon as I'm almost done with the commission.

[batbetbitbotbut]

@bread-tab

[laurajameskinney]

was crawling around on the floor for like 2 hours blocking my dress #mydress and chat. my back. it hurts.

[laurajameskinney]

anyways. look at this.

[laurajameskinney]

ok great job looking everybody. now this.

[ssfoc]

Corey Alston, an American fifth generation sweetgrass weaver who owns Corey Alston Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets in Ladson, South Carolina, and a basket from his store.

“This art form, characterized by the use of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto, has been passed down through generations, with its roots tracing back to West Africa.”

[batbetbitbotbut]

Don't mind me, just amassing some deflected doubleweave inspiration from my books, sorry for the phone-quality photos...

1-2: A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns edited by Carol Strickler; fabric 1 by Jackie Kelly, fabric 2 by Christine McKeeman

3: The Art of Weaving by Betty Briand

4-9: Weaving Max8 by Marian Stubenitsky; fabric 4 by Mary A. Bentley, fabrics 6-8 by Mariet Buiten, fabric 9 by Jouël Melief

10-11: Eight Shafts: Beyond the Beginning edited by Laurie Knapp Autio; fabric 10 by Teresa McFarland, fabric 11 by Sheila Carey

[gayvampyr]

losing it over this. unbridled chaos

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.

[what-even-is-thiss]

So my bone needle actually came this evening (yay!) and I’ve started trying this for real. It clicks in my brain way easier than crochet does. I’ve gotta work up the muscle memory but I think I can do this.

The downside as a beginner is that undoing mistakes is more time consuming than with knitting or crochet. You’ve gotta like sew your mistakes out backwards. Disadvantages of making a really sturdy fabric I guess.

I like the feel of this bone needle though and don’t think I’ll be trying the wooden or metal ones.

Also I think I’m gonna have to get good at doing Russian joining if I decide to get good at nalbinding because I don’t have wool yarn and the ends won’t felt together if it’s not at least 50% wool. A small price to pay for using big bone needle though.

Anyways curse of new fiber craft be upon ye.

[sevryn]

I finally finished the pigeon sweater! 🕊️🐦

pattern is by Michelle Tsai

It took a full month and a half for me to finish lol

info about how I knit mine (yarns etc)

I used a bunch of mohair combined with other yarns to get the colours :)