I would rather be knitting in a cave

[hanavesinauttija]

[pelagae]

And her sister Phthalo Blue, another slam dunk for copper!

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Don't forget about her distant cousin, Tyrian Purple

[ladyshinga]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

[turgidturnip]

I just had to collect all of these responses together in one place

Edit: And one from my friend, who doesn't have a tumblr (yet)

[ladyshinga]

#i keep waiting for someone to address the '18th century looms were huge' claim#like sure some were#but the fact that textile mills had been invented doesn't mean that all home weaving ceased#indeed people still weave for fun or profit in this the 21st century#smaller looms were still being built and used in the 18th century just as smaller looms are still being built and used today#and that's without considering the existence of inkle/tape/band looms which were/are used for making narrower woven ribbons for trimming etc#small 18th century looms absolutely exist

there are thousands of notes and a few people ABSOLUTELY addressed this xD

[twistedmaiden]

I wanna add mine! But it still has some assembling to do before I can move on to the next step

[quick-to-query]

...Okay this place *is* better than Reddit.

[stormneedle]

My wife did a lot of hand crafts while we were dating. After we got engaged, my father piped up that at least she didn't have a spinning wheel. We put it in the doorway the first time my parents came to visit.

Her loom is packed away at the moment so she can work on an uncountable number of knitting projects and metalwork at the moment.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Fibercrafts.

Not even once. You start with "Oh, I'd love to learn the drop spindle" And the next minute your home office is occupied by a loom, you're planting flax in the garden, and considering the logistics of owning an alpaca.

[soymoss]

starling

[happymiffy]

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[lancrewizzard]

Terrible idea for a necromancer character. Their staff is fashioned from the thigh bone of a fallen comrade, the hip joint forming the core of the glowing orb at its end. This is the only weapon they will ever need, because they know they can defeat anything with the power of friend’s hip.

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[roseroyalty-moving]

when u touch an unaware cat and they make that small surprised sound reblog if u agree

[roseroyalty-moving]

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

where to upgrade social battery. where to buy larger social battery. how to attach multiple social batteries. how to hang out with all your friends without getting tired. how to hang out with everyone you wanna hang out with without burning out. infinite social energy hack. nap tips

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

social battery rapid charger. social battery usable while plugged in. how to love everyone you love

[im-mender]

is it normal for social battery to look like this

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

mye social battery is pillow because im so sleepy

[im-mender]

[thekimonogallery]

Matabe

Naoshima,Kagawa

2015| Architect | Kazuhiro Minabe

[oganneb]

Emil is my "yup this is real wool" detector. It's only real wool that he goes this nuts over

[unicornery]

[ookaookaooka]

it is soooooo dangerous* how much crossover there is between different fiber arts. at their core theyre all just twisty twisty makes long string and twisty twisty plus over under makes fabric

*for me who has too many hobbies already

[ookaookaooka]

update: this was sticks two days ago

[systlin]

So what ARE your opinions on field vs water retting? I’m gonna farm some fiber this year

Water retting makes flax a beautiful golden color, but field retting is easier to keep an eye on.

ALSO, I've come to the conclusion that Tolkein's Teleri elves did field retting for the sails of the swan ships, because field retting leaves the flax a beautiful silvery gray, and while all flax will eventually bleach to white with washing in lye and sun the sails are supposed to be pale and the silver would suit the aesthetic better than the golden color you get from water retting. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[magenkeshet]

Oh you’re SO right about that. Now I’m thinking about elven textile manufacturing….

[systlin]

Welcome to our super niche nerd Tolkien Elves Textile Work Fan Club. Me and @batsintheshadows are founding members. We both have Opinions about linen and nettle fiber.

[readingreddingread]

The amount of time they have to master stuff no arthritis or aging eyes their lace craft is probably sickenly good.

[systlin]

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING LIKE

These MF folks can casually spend 300 years mastering bobbin lace and then can casually spend 100 years making one full length entire ass bobbin lace DRESS out of linen spun as fine as a sigh. Can you fucking IMAGINE the absolute Bullshit they get up to with fancy weaving.

[dreamingdormouse]

And you'd be far less likely to lose techniques to time. Like, there's a bunch of stuff we don't know about even just flax processing, because most of the people who were insanely good at it lived before the world wars. The world wars messed up linen production at scale in a lot of Europe, and people didn't have the resources to get back to it until after a lot of the experts had already died of old age.

Old age is not an issue for the elves. Quite aside from having the individual ability to spend time on their work, you just wouldn't lose the experts.

My guilt has been part of an effort to reprint the Davison green book, in cooperation with Marguerite Davison's descendants. Imagine if we just, like, still had Marguerite Davison.

I mean, we can't know how many techniques were lost to Fëanor's BS, but I bet there were some Teleri sail weavers with special techniques. But at least time itself wouldn't be the problem.

[gallusrostromegalus]

@systlin if I could make a formal introduction: @dreamingdormouse is one of my best friends from college who is a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge on many topics but esp. fiber craft, using spreadsheets in novel ways, and fantasy literature.

@dreamingdormouse, @systlin is a distant cousin of mine who does swords, native flora restoration and takes the piss on bad fantasy and sci-fi authors.

I think you two would be excellent friends.

[lichenaday]

Got bit by a new bird species today!

Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

This guy doesn't even go here! Recent high winds blew him over to Iceland from his typical American homeland. Awww, kinda like me!

(I am a licensed bird ringer for the country of Iceland and all animals are captured and handled according to regulations under the authority of the Natural Science Institute of Iceland)

[elodieunderglass]

He grisps you 🤏

[ivy-meshle]

Only fair, to both grisp and be grisped

[craftingcreatures]

In all fairness, if a humongous monster grabbed me by the legs and subjected me to ultimately harmless but nonetheless distressing and incomprehensible procedures with neither consent nor explanation, I too would attempt to bite them

[lichenaday]

Absolutely! I love the ones that bite because I am like "very good, do not go gently, rage rage and all that. You are a survivor and I am proud of you!"

Of course I then also love the ones who just sit there confused and stare at me with big, confused eyes, cause then I gotta be like "hey buddy c'mon, it's gonna be ok. This is such a weird day I totally get it. You can fight back a little if you want."

[circlejourneyart]

Ginger Island sort of makes me think of home…

(drawing this was my birthday gift to myself)

Based on this part of my Ginger Island farm:

[naamahdarling]

I lost a needle I liked in my pincushion so I decided to get a strong magnet and see if I could pull it back out.

I pulled out 68.

I very rarely sew.

This was my grandmother's pincushion. How many were hers?

[autisticnightfury]

Finding a 68 needles in a haystack pincushion

[naamahdarling]

Where you would expect to find needles!

AND YET.

(I jibbled out some more so we are at 71 and I can feel at least two more in there by sweeping the magnet across. Now hunting for my strongest one.)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

tomato is perfec t size for put needle inside very soft and comfort needle

[featherwurm]

A friend suggested 'a mimic that eats needles' and I got the most vivid mental picture.

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.