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So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

systlin

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

hermesmuse

Op can may we inquire about the website list

systlin

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

wingedtyger

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

systlin

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

beggars-opera

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

the-merry-otter

For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

justgarb

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

med-godur-hesturin

If you’re in Canada,

http://purelinenenvy.ca

has 100% linen at $17 / metre Canadian. Hard to beat! I made a lovely dress out of some and it breathes wonderfully. So I bought more to make another dress 😁

bloodfreakcastiel

at least they keep falling in love in every universe on ao3

bu-ko

aokigahara

socialistexan

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1

moniquill

To be entirely clear: This is very much intended to create a legal pathway to load homeless people into vans, incarcerate, and enslave them (Most incarcerated people in the US are enslaved)

karapaints

Congratulations, they’re not only going to disappear the homeless and the folks suffering from addiction, they’re also going to disappear folks with “serious mental illness.” Serious according to whom?? Are we disappearing “unruly wives” or LGBTQIA folks??

moniquill

Yes to all and more. They want to be able to do this to anyone they deem a problem to society.

Call your congresspeople and tell them to oppose this LOUDLY.

genderkoolaid

"People with severe mental illness" also refers to, you know, mentally ill people. They want to disappear people who are not sane. Especially queer people and people seen as women who are not sane. It's important to talk about how sanism is weaponized against all marginalized groups, but like. It is ALSO bad when people who are genuinely "severely mentally ill" (which many homeless people are) are disappeared. Sanist violence isn't upsetting only when it happens to people who aren't REALLY crazy.

indie-ttrpg-of-the-week

Kill Credit card Companies

indie-ttrpg-of-the-week

This blog supports pornographic and erotic artists and developers, and wishes them good luck in finding fucking anything that'll take them nowadays

Bless you all, and may the puritan fucks pushing you out of everywhere know nothing but pain and sorrow

raakhti

this is not my screenshot

discord has been pushing its new uk online safety act changes early for some users. this screenshot belongs to a 32 year old who used discords built in face scanner to verify their age. the scanner said they were 11 years old, and instantly suspended the account, with no option to try again or appeal, and the suspension will automatically end in 2027, when they’re “old enough” to use discord.

DO NOT SCAN YOUR FACE TO VERIFY YOUR AGE

if you really want to verify your age, use a different option available. don’t trust the face scan.

may-we-rest-well

A website with tips on how to avoid the face ID system for Bluesky and other platforms.

Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md

visenyaism

Girlfriend explaining extensive lore of the sports yaoi she’s reading about seemingly like gay ultimate frisbee racquetball players who are in West Virginia but also somehow inexplicably in the yakuza (in West Virginia) and I thought she had to be fucking with me but apparently thousands of you on here are eating this up. devastating

visenyaism

📍Getting kidnapped by the japanese Appalachian yakuza and waterboarded homoerotically in a basement while the team captain tattoos my jersey number on my face because the team captain wants me to play ultimate frisbee with him. In fuckingggggggggg Charleston West Virginia

feedyourdeadnametothevoidfish

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

anarchistmemedistro

62 8

technofeudalism

g00burr

Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

anarchistmemedistro

no it’s worse. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

parsnippety

it’s legit yall. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/just-8-men-own-same-wealth-half-world

turquoisemagpie

Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover phys

Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

18thcenturythirsttrap

...Non-UK peeps, please reblog for reach ❤️

the-evil-skull

The reason Donna has never seen the doctor regenerate without David Tennant is actually because the presence of Donna Noble spawns David Tennants in Time Lords the same way temperature feminizes lizards. If the master died in front of Donna he would regenerate into David Tennant

unfavorableinstigation

Growing up, my brother and I deeply dreaded going shoe shopping. It took hours, especially if it was for winter boots. My dad would examine the stitching, the brand reliability, the temperature recommendations, every piece of information he could get his hands on, and then when he'd finally found the right brand, it was on to making absolutely dead sure they fit properly - he had a particular way of poking the toe of the boot to ensure our foot was where it was supposed to be that always drove me nuts. This was always on a weekend, and it was about the worst punishment we could imagine.

Years later, I found out that he'd spent his entire childhood on the Canadian prairies with cold feet. My grandmother just bought whatever boots looked like the best value, regardless of whether they'd keep anyone warm. They'd kept him from frostbite, probably, but never, ever comfortable.

The reason my grandmother never had a thought about this was because she was buying her kids real boots. There was a sort of magical quality about real, purpose-made boots that meant that of course they'd work, because when she was growing up on the Canadian prairies, they had the kind of no money that meant you just stuffed some newspaper into your shoes and soldiered on.

The last pair of winter boots my dad bought for me was 15 years ago, in preparation for a three-month stint living in northern Quebec in midwinter. They cost $200 then, or something like it. I've worn them every year since, driving out to the remotest locations on the Canadian prairies and never once thinking about my feet.

When I read the Vimes Boots Theory for the first time, it rang a bell that reverberated back three generations.

zurdur-art

This months HRD ( @holisticredraws ) proper challenge but man was it fun :)

amberautumnfaebrooke

the thing about small talk is that it's literally fun

amberautumnfaebrooke

don't you want to know that your coworker's neice started a youtube channel? don't you want to know what your brother thought of that movie he just saw? don't you want to know about the phd on an obscure historical form of musical notation this girl at the party is working on? if you experience the weather every single day then it's not frivolous to talk about it babes

sandersstudies

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

3liza

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

homunculus-argument

I love it when fantasy tropes aren't just subverted by something explicitly opposite happening, but by having it look like the Standard Cliché Thing is happening, but then it turns out that this is not the case, and also there's actually a very logical and reasonable natural explanation to why it seems like the cliché thing is happening.

Like imagine a story having the standard Conan Barbarian -looking ass Proud Warrior Race Guy who never shuts up about how his people are Brave Manly Warriors and somehow every single other of his countrymen that they encounter is exactly like that, including boasting about having two or three wives and 8-12 children waiting for him back home.

Then it turns out that their homeland - that may just be one single city-state - is not at all some Wasteland Of Pillaging And Anarchy, but a very civilised (though distinct) society that is also quite matriarchal. Sure, everything that the Warrior Guy has said about his home is true, but it turns out that the multiple-wife marriages are actually arrangements made between the women, often for political, financial, practical or even romantic reasons. Not everyone's man comes back home from the wars, so women make deals of "if your husband dies, do you want to share mine?" quite a lot. It doesn't even occur to the Warrior Race Guy to make a distinction between which ones of his wives' children are his and which ones were from some previous husband. All of them are his and he'll stab you if you try to argue otherwise.

Like yeah they're still a violent and warlike people whose entire way of life relies on making the world a shittier place for everyone else, but they are shockingly civilised as individuals, and within their own society.

skltart

hell yeah

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