ojovivo
pixel skylines
Doug Jones
š
macklin celebrini has autism
Kiana Khansmith
tumblr dot com
izzy's playlists!
art blog(derogatory)
One Nice Bug Per Day
if i look back, i am lost
I'd rather be in outer space šø
No title available
Fieri Frames
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
official daine visual archive
Cosmic Funnies
ā
noise dept.
Color Me Curious
seen from Colombia
seen from Bangladesh
seen from Colombia
seen from Germany
seen from Russia
seen from Suriname
seen from Poland
seen from Canada
seen from Germany
seen from Dominican Republic
seen from Netherlands
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Syria
seen from TĆ¼rkiye
seen from Argentina
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Uruguay
seen from Canada
seen from Argentina
@thymehoneylavender
I don't know who needs to hear this, but
YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!
STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!
YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!
THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!
boy it's me the textiles speaking to you inside your head. you need the yarn. you need thread. your soul hungers to participate in the act of creation. you must feed it. you must buy so many beads.
Mitski - Working for the Knife (2021)
i donāt think violence, or greed are the roots of human nature. i think warping looms and making soups are.
everyone is zeroing on the soup part which is nice but weaving has been around for at least 12,000 years (more like 30,000 years but yee). weaving is one of the first technologies that human beings developed and perfected and i think thatās neat.
Ethereum Core - Woven Cotton Throw Blanket Designed by Phillip David Stearns for Glitch Textiles - Blockchain Collection
First time taking a project through from roving to woven scarf!
Rainbow weave!!
I made a little reference piece for my future embroidery projects. No more guessing how many strands I should use and regretting it later. š¤ by NeedlessDesigns
Rumpelstiltskin is a story about how if people find out you can do crafts they'll want free shit
For those who always wonder how long it takes me, I like to show them this picture: one year worth of completed pieces š¢š: by Satellite_Stitches
Visible Mending
Introduction:
Visible mending is a decorative way to fix up an item. Instead of trying to make your mend as invisible as possible, the idea is to make it part of the garment's design.
Visual mending is not a single technique: it's more of a mindset. If you've got an item you love, it deserves to be mended, and if you're going to put that love into stitches, why not show them off?
That being said, there are some specific techniques that are popular with visible menders. Let's take a look!
Sashiko:
Sashiko is a type of traditional Japanese embroidery that is used to both decorate and reinforce fabric. In visible mending, sashiko is often used to cover up holes with patches or to reinforce thinning fabric. This technique uses a variation on the running stitch.
(Image source)
Some resources on sashiko:
SashiCo on YouTube: sashiko livestreams and information on the cultural aspect of sashiko.
Written tutorial by Upcycle Stitches.
Free sashiko templates by TheSpruceCrafts.
Fixing jeans with sashiko by Soluna Collective.
(Image source)
(Image source)
Embroidery:
Regular embroidery is also a popular technique to accentuate your mends. Check out my embroidery 101 post to learn how to get started. You can embroider patches, or use embroidery to hide or accentuate any stitches you've made to fix holes. Embroidery's also a great way to cover up stains.
(Image source)
(Image source)
Patches:
There are many ways to add patches to a garment. My tutorial on patches is a good place to start if you want to make custom-shaped patches to sew on top of your fabric. You can also sew your patch on the inside of your garment and have it peek out from beneath the hole you're trying to fix. Fun ideas for this are lace or superheroes.
(Image source)
(Source)
Darning:
Darning is a technique used to repair holes in fabric by using running stitches to weave extra fabric over the hole as to fill it up again. While traditionally darning is done in an invisible way by using the same colour of thread as your fabric, you can also use contrasting colours to accentuate your fix. Check out this written tutorial on darning by TheSpruceCrafts.
(Image source)
(Image source)
Conclusion:
Visible mending is a creative way to fix up your clothes and give them some personality at the same time.
You should be proud of the fact that you took the time and learned the necessary skills needed to mend your clothes! Show off what you did!
A fun side effect of wearing these obvious mends is that people will notice them. They'll remember your fixes the next time they're faced with a hole in their wardrobe, and it will make them more likely to try it for themselves.
These are just a few ways to visibly mend your garments. Want more inspiration? Check out Pinterest or r/Visiblemending on Reddit.
The golden wings of victory
Here's hoping to all of us having a better year than the last one ā”
Well friends, you finally got me, I'm starting a (unfilled, because I prefer the flatter look/feel) Beekeeper's Quilt.
1 hexipuff down approx 400 to go
HOLY SHIT I JUST STARTED MY OWN BEEKEEPERS QUILT IM LIKE FOUR IN SO ALMOST DONE UR HEXAPUFF LOOKS SO GOOD
Oh I fully expect to still be working on this in 3 years time, so feel free to check in
Well friends, you finally got me, I'm starting a (unfilled, because I prefer the flatter look/feel) Beekeeper's Quilt.
1 hexipuff down approx 400 to go
Anyway fall goldenrod + aster + sunflower honey is better than summer clover honey send tweet
Yes, but orange blossom honey? š©
Very nice, but a product of the lands of āit doesnāt get to -40 here so we can grow orangesā and thus will never be found in my own hives.
how do you feel about mint honey?
A+, particularly in a glaze or marinade for chicken or in tea for a sore throat.
Ooh, rosemary honey?
Even better as a glaze for chicken, and killer to add a touch of sweetness to a vinaigrette on summer salad.
Godsdamn it, now Iām craving all types of honey.
Find some thyme honey and thank me later. Itās my absolute favorite kind, above even my own fall honey, and thatās a tall order.
Clearlyā¦ I love thyme honey, but actually have fallen deeply for heather honey this last year (2 years? Time?)
Idk if you have access to /ability to grow heather where you are but if you can? Itās the best on warm crusty bread
I am Interested.
Heather doesnāt grow around here (likes acid soils, weāre alkaline here) but Iāll have to find some to give it a try.
Also, I love your name.
If I thought I could post honey from Ireland without it getting destroyed/confiscated I would send it.
It's also some of the strongest smelling honey I've ever had? In a good way, but I opened a jar in my office and the smell filled the room.
(My IRL name also has references to honey, believe it or not)
Anyway fall goldenrod + aster + sunflower honey is better than summer clover honey send tweet
Yes, but orange blossom honey? š©
Very nice, but a product of the lands of āit doesnāt get to -40 here so we can grow orangesā and thus will never be found in my own hives.
how do you feel about mint honey?
A+, particularly in a glaze or marinade for chicken or in tea for a sore throat.
Ooh, rosemary honey?
Even better as a glaze for chicken, and killer to add a touch of sweetness to a vinaigrette on summer salad.
Godsdamn it, now Iām craving all types of honey.
Find some thyme honey and thank me later. Itās my absolute favorite kind, above even my own fall honey, and thatās a tall order.
Clearly... I love thyme honey, but actually have fallen deeply for heather honey this last year (2 years? Time?)
Idk if you have access to /ability to grow heather where you are but if you can? It's the best on warm crusty bread
Alright alright I give in. I'm starting my own beekeepers quilt project.
Well, I'm not, but I understand the sentiment!!
The beekeeper's quilt is inevitable š
Darling @knitink got me started on one, and since then we've corrupted influenced people in our discord server to join the fun...
My deepest condolences, op. Remember, there's no shame in taking ten+ years to finish it...
the hexipuff support group could be a real thing if people are interested...
Idek how many I'll NEED I just happily knit little puffs and they will eventually become a whole thing...it's been suggested I won't finish it in the next 5 years and that is probably correct
I... I think I might be interested in a hexipuff support group. I find it far easier to work on a project consistently if there's external motivation. I keep thinking "welllllllll if you do one puff per day, you could be done in a year!" and then I don't.
I'm in!
I am so so sorry @runeslover
I haven't looked at my bags of hexipuffs in at least 8 months. I think I had a couple hundred of them, though!
A couple of hundreds!!
I have twelve.
Yeah I got on kind of a roll on them a while back. They're so quick, so mindless once you get the feel for it! And they play into my desire to use all scraps & waste nothing - I was even stuffing them with yarn scraps. The downside is that A) Some of them have wool and idk which ones, though I found out when I had to wash some and B) I have no care or control over the colors of the thing, so it is gonna be the UGLIEST beekeeper's quilt there ever was. My guest bedroom may be hard to look at.
That's amazing! š I love that they're so great for using up scrap yarn, too.
Also isn't it the whole point to end up with a giant uncoordinated mess of colours, as if a rainbow vomited on your bed? It's going to be absolutely beautiful.
I... have accepted that I too am starting this, and am trying to convince my (non knitting) wife that this a giant jigsaw I'm making for her to get to arrange all the puffs the way she wants at the end (in 8 years time)
hey, plauntie, how hard is it actually to process your own fleeces at home? I've got chronic fatigue fuckery that means physically demanding labor is just outright a no, but I spin on a drop spindle plenty and I've reached the point that I think that processing whole fleeces and just dying them myself might be cheaper in the long run.
It's labor intensive. Steps are as follows;
1. Pick over fleece. AKA, pick out any bits that are really full of hay/sticks/ect or have dung stuck to them.
2. Wash. Mild soap and lots of water. I do this in the bathtub. It's actually rather remarkable to see a fleece you thought was grayish or white and tan go snow-white as the dirt comes out. This can take a couple changes of water.
3. Card/comb. This is time consuming but sort of meditative, but holy shit damn you'll have forearms, wrists, and hands of tempered steel if you do it a lot. The most physically demanding bit, and it IS physically demanding. Counts as an upper body workout to a lady who plays with swords and shields for fun.
4. Spin.
So, honestly, if you've got chronic fatigue or chronic pain it might be really difficult, particularly the carding/combing bit.
Chronic illness/ chronic fatigue fibre folk, any thoughts and tips for this anon? Working in small batches is a thing I see a lot, is that something you would recommend?
Yeah that would make it MUCH more manageable. Heck even I do that for time reasons. I wash like half a fleece at a go and card it bit by bit when Iāve got time, but that might also make it more manageable for people with fatigue or pain.
A picker box or a drum carder would make the carding MUCH easier, but both can be expensive.
As someone with issues with both pain and energy levels my steps are
Enlist help when I can
Figure out what things can be done in pieces or where I can tap out if I need to - like I can't just leave soaking wet fleece laying about but I can comb out a bit at a time etc
Don't be afraid to just sit on the floor! Or bring a stool into the bathroom! Find little ways to support yourself
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purlsā¦
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom beingā¦
3322 square feet
Factoring it outā¦302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of aĀ ābinary codeā was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Hereās Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, youāll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.Ā
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.Ā
Hereās a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and hereās a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you donāt just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Hereās an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0ā²s) told the machine notĀ to knit the ground color (1ā²s) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
@we-are-threadmage
Someone port Doom to a blanket
I really love tumblr for this š
It goes beyond this. Ā Every computer out there has memory. Ā The kind of memory you might call RAM. Ā The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. Ā It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. Ā This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Ā Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Ā Hereās a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASAās Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and thatās because it is. Ā But these are also extreme close-ups. Ā Hereās the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Ā Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. Ā This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. Ā It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
(little old ladies sewed the space suits, too)
Fun fact: one nickname for it was LOL Memory, forĀ ālittle old lady memory.ā
I mean letās also touch on the Jacquard Loom, if you want to get all Textiles In Sciencey. It was officially created in 1801 or 1804 depending on who you ask (although you can see it in proto-form as early as 1725) and used a literal chain of punch cards to tell the loom which warps to raise on hooks before passing the weft through. It replaced the āweaver yelling at Draw Boyā technique, in which the weaver would call to the kid manning the heddlesĀ āraise these and these, lower these!ā and hope that he got it right.Ā
With a Jacquard loom instead of painstakingly picking up every little thread by hand to weave in a pattern, which is what folks used to do for brocades in Ye Olde Times, this basically automated that. Essentially all you have to do to weave here is advance the punch cards and throw the shuttle. SO EASY.Ā
ALSO, itās not justĀ ālittle old ladies sewed the first spacesuits,ā itāsĀ āthe women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed.ā Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras. Bra-makers sent us to the moon.Ā
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldnāt use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if youāre within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, youāre usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.Ā
The women who made the spacesuits were BADASSES. (and yes, Iāve tried to get Space-X to hire me more than once. They donāt seem interested these days)
This is fascinating. I knew there was a correlation between binary and weaving but this just takes it to a whole nother level.Ā
Iām in Venice, Italy several times a year (lucky me!) and last year I went on a private tour of the Luigi Bevilacqua factory. Founded in 1875, they still use their original jacquard looms to hand make velvet. Here are the looms:
Here are the punch cards:
Some of these looms take up to 1600 spools. That is necessary to make their many different patterns.Ā Here are some patterns:
How many punchcards per pattern?
Ā This many:
Modern computing owes its very life to textiles - And to women. From antiquity weaving has been the domain of women. Sure, we remember Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr, but whileĀ Joseph Marie JacquardĀ gets all the creditĀ for his loom, the operators and designers were for the most part women.
Iāve seen this cross my dash a few times, but Iāve never watched the video before. Maybe I just didnāt pay attention when I was a kid, but I donāt remember ever seeing just how the Jacquard loom works. I just knew that the punch cards controlled which threads were raised. Itās cool to see the how, not just the what.
Donāt hide this in the tags, @drylime :D
I am never not amused by the overlap of textiles and technology. Also the fact that a huge number of fiber arts people I know are either in tech or math themselves or their partner is (myself included - husband is a programmer).
