#weaveblr

[thefelineofaveb]

"Please be a dear boy and destroy this note." is a queer art piece I made for a textile art show that'll take place in July.

We often hear things like "queer is just a trend" or "there weren't as many queer people before", and you know what? Queer people have always been here. We've been here from the beginning of history.

So I took this quote from a transcript of a police raid in a queer space in 1934 (link, National Archive Catalogue reference: MEPO 3/758) and I referenced Wilde's green carnation.

And on top of that, I decided to use a traditional sardinian weaving technique (pibiones) to do the textile, AND I made a font based on the Olivetti lettera 32 font (the typewriter my mother used when she was young; I wanted a touch of personal/familiar history as well).

Because we have traditions. We have history. We've been oppressed, silenced, made invisible; but that doesn't mean we weren't here.

[claypigeonpottery]

look what @subpar-lemon-bar made for my bull 🥹

he wove the two squares on a pin loom and sewed them together. we will definitely be collaborating in the future

[summoningspark]

first loom weaving project is a self-drafted double cloth because nobody tried hard enough to stop me

[dangerphd]

long story short: I would very much like to have a handmade gift created before tomorrow noonish. special, but not *handspun* special, you dig?

enter: worsted weight merino and the smol rigid heddle loom. pretty sure I can get it warped for houndstooth and woven up in time to wash it first thing in the morning and then speed dry on a box fan before departure time...

[med-godur-hesturin]

I am itching to embellish the bottom hem of my Norse Greenland (herjolfness) dress, sewn from the patterns taken from the archaeologically excavated garments shown in Medieval Garments Reconstructed. I have the sister book, Woven Into the Earth and it shows how borders on these garments were both tablet woven and sewn.

A couple of pages from Woven Into the Earth:

I am familiar with tablet weaving, but not with this tablet weaving sewing mix.

@zooarchaeologyatdinner, anyone else, do you have any experience with this technique?

[degenezijde]

Visited Texture today! It's a museum all about flax. I took pictures :)

What you get out of one acre of flax:

Different types of flax fabrics:

A diagram that shows how flax compares to other fibres when it comes to strenght:

The flax year:

Tools! I like the yarn winder that seems to have some kind of measuring mechanism.

And lastly, how much flax you'd need to buy a house in 1950's Belgium.

[disgruntled-lifeform]

One of my guildmates is preparing for our craft sale in the fall/winter and I just had to share their weaving with you all

Such lovely autumnal colours!

[ckmakes]

Dahlia, woven tapestry 1/2025 - 7/2025

8 epi, Gist array wool tapestry yarn