Human By Default

The other choice is goo.

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This has some really interesting scholarship about facial prosthetics and/or limb prosthetics post 1910's. It's a direct download PDF.

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wasn't gonna post this but actually fuck everyone take it

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Bela Lugosi having a break during the filming of Dracula (1931).

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Catalogue no. 112. : Sears, Roebuck and Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sears Roebuck catalogue from the ~1900's. Menswear starts at p. 838 and womens at p. 1142 (or just skip to the end of the catalogue and go backwards).

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Just some choice excerpts.

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Catalogue no. 112. : Sears, Roebuck and Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Sears Roebuck catalogue from the ~1900's. Menswear starts at p. 838 and womens at p. 1142 (or just skip to the end of the catalogue and go backwards).

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A directory of over 325 historic magazines, newspapers, trade journals related to women and fashion from around the world, available for fre

So many fashion and home making magazines, another 200 years of really interesting stuff!

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Historic Archived Catalogs & Brochures - OldHouseGuy Blog

Huge amount of house and furnishings related catalogue pdfs. about 200 years worth.

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Illustrated descriptive catalogue : Prison Department industries, State of New York. : New York (State). Superintendent of State Prisons (Al

Super interesting to see all the things that were manufactured in the prison systems around 1910. Especially since many of the furnishings etc are good solid antiques, and prison/hospital wear that are difficult to find illustrations of.

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I’m so happy I got this shot earlier holy shit

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the gays in your neighborhood figured out beam attacks

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The general is done (because my boss told me to stop working on it and do something else).

Yes the shoulder boards are also toast with butter.

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I was doing some research today for slightly unhinged military ribbons and got these amazing examples. I made a mini version of the middle one using random things I found in the workshop.

I also have some very tiny brass buttons, antique grosgrain, a cut glass button and several more fake medals and buttons and stuff to add to this costume.

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How to fix ripped crotch in your pants.

Trace the crotch seam and inseam on a piece of paper. Paper towel works too. Make the curve big enough to cover the holes and some extra. Cut two of these and sew them together at the crotch seam. Clip the seam allowance to release the curve. Trim it to about 3/8”. Don’t worry about this seam finish because it’s going to be encapsulated.

Serge/overlock the outside edges of your patch. If you don’t have an overlock that’s ok you can zigzag it onto your pants in the next step.

Pin the patch into the crotch of your pants along the centre seam first, then spreading the legs out and getting it to lie as flat as you can. Pin around the outside edges of the patch.

Sew along the crotch seam and then around the outside edges. Use a straight stitch if you have already finished the seam edge of the patch. Use a zigzag if there are raw edges. Try to get the raw edge of the patch under your zig zag if you are choosing this finish.

Turn your pants right side out and overstitch where the holes and weak places are. I have done a reinforcing stitch in the worn areas and used machine darning (fancy way to say I just went back and forth with the backstitch) to cover the holes. If your fabric has a surface texture try to go with it, that’s why my stitches are diagonal (denim is a twill weave and had a diagonal surface texture).

Sew as much as you think you need. I used a zipper foot to get stitches right in next to the crotch seams while reinforcing, but the real strain is taken by the outside edge of the patch so you could even just sashiko/visible mend with embroidery thread if you wanted to.

Anyway I hope this helps people.

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One of our fabric sales reps came in for an appointment yesterday and we ended up talking about the long term impacts of the pandemic. The home quilting market is predominantly a conservative customer base, so when COVID precautions were politicized, those ladies followed along and didn't get vaccinated, didn't wear masks, etc. Now many of them are dead. Most of the fabric stores in the conservative regions that our reps call on have lost twenty percent of their customers. The ladies the shop knew by name because they could be counted on for annual trade-in upgrades of $9000 sewing machines? Dead. Viking is laying off half of its staff. It's taken two years for the impact to become obvious, but the home sewing industry in the US is in shambles. A lot of experience, knowledge and artistry was lost and when the independent shops have to close, we'll lose even more.

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Aaaaand now JoAnn Fabrics is closing 500 out of 800 stores. Full list here: https://www.fastcompany.com/91277436/joann-fabrics-closing-stores-list-locations-states-bankruptcy-update

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Sorry to anyone who had a JoAnn's not on the above list. All stores will now be closed and liquidated.

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The CEO of Birch Fabrics just sent out a letter saying that they are running a sale to see if they can generate enough cash to last another month. They are literally a five person business at this point, and production costs have gotten so high that they might not be able to continue. I hope they can hang on, because their organic cotton canvas is so good. I love their Charley Harper collection. :(

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Behold my toast army.

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This bastard took two days to pattern and assemble but damn.

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Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

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Hey, I know another type of stretch for this!

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your 'funny bone'). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here's the best diagram I can find of it:

It's a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

Step 3: thumb side moves down and towards the front.

Step 4: hand rotates out and around, pinky side first.

Step 5: nothing fancy here, just straighten your elbow.

Step 6 (not on diagram, but recommended by therapist): with arm in the same position, tilt your head towards the opposite side for a few second (works as a stretch).

Ulnar nerve compression (aka cubital tunnel) is apparently super common, but I had never heard of it before I started having issues. If you lean forwards on your desk or armrests a lot, I'd suggest giving these a try. It feels kind of weird because you can feel the nerve, but it shouldn't hurt at all.

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Yesterday’s hat nonsense. (Today’s hat nonsense had to be dismantled and start over). I patterned this képi with plastic wrap and packing tape and then made a beautifully fit slipcover that I henson stitched up the back seam with a curved needle. The front will get a badge of butter on toast, more trim will go on and the pompom will be attached more securely but basically you get the idea.