adventures with the textile arts

biktor. crocheter, knitter, cross-sticher, sewing beginner. replies from @bipedalseal.

[comfortabletextiles]

All parts are cut out, and I already hemmed the sleeve slit. That I now connect with some lace...

My back is already crying, but it looks very cool

[fieldsatelier]

10.1.26

It has been 10 days since I started using rollers daily and I'm really happy about it! Before this, I used them maybe once or twice a month and then leave it out without much shaping. The last three days however I got tired of that style and have been looking at vintage hairstyles to see what I can do with my own hair -- and I'm so excited!! I never expected to love updos this much :)

[thunderstruck9]

Farhad Moshiri (Iranian, 1963-2024), Space Station, 2006. Embroidery on canvas, 150 x 110 cm.

[thunderstruck9]

Farhad Moshiri (Iranian, 1963-2024), Control Room, 2004. Embroidery on black velvet, 50 x 68 cm.

[achillesinhighheels]

[muskming]

“Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk 搗練圖卷” early 12th century, silk painting attributed to Emperor Huizong (7 June 1082 – 4 June 1135) of the Song dynasty, the only extant copy of a lost original by Chinese artist Zhang Xuan (713–755) Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

[themboots]

[umrzec]

ig @ sophieisabelllaa

[once-a-polecat]

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

[eyes-alight]

[loomingtranssexual]

finished on my commute home yesterday. super super fun read, really recommend for anybody into craft history & like women’s labor rights/liberation generally. definitely content warnings for lots of descriptions of historical misogyny, both implicit & explicit, & rather uncritical reproductions of um. the way european colonizers talked about Indigenous people. in the nicest way possible, it’s apparent that it was written by an old white woman in the 1980s, but that perspective is kind of interesting to me as a woke zoomer with an art degree & a very contemporary craftsperson experience. bonus for the language nerds, the earlier chapters quote a ton of historical writing with all the old spelling variations people used before written english was standardized, really delightful stuff if that’s your thing lmao

[magicfemme]

“we think not a friend lost because he has gone into another room."

AIDS QUILT SERIES | VIEW THE QUILT

[daftpatience]

I saw we're sharing our fiber arts projects! ive been having a lot of fun crocheting with pop tabs recently, here's a hat and a dice bag I made!

ouu these look so stimmy thats awesome!!! ty for sharing ^_^ ♥

[omgthatdress]

Happy Diwali!

I've been down a rabbit hole of Desi fashion (I have literally spent daaaaays browsing Pernia's Pop Up Shop) and honestly that shit is fascinating.

I can't possibly cover all of it in a single day. But I will point out that Google Art is starting to put some items from textile & art museums in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan online, which is tremendous.

"Ethnic" dress is SERIOUSLY under-documented in Western museums. Instead of being presented as something as contemporary and complex as western fashion, it's all lumped together as a curiosity and not something that changes and adapts as society moves.

Obviously these museums in India have a very different approach, but there's not much of their collections online. Even with Google Art, the pictures there are small, and you can't zoom in on the complex details the way you can on say The Met website.

Hopefully this is just the first step in things changing for the better. There should be a lot more of it online.

[restingbitchlifestyle]

All of these types of fabrics are in normal Indian clothing stores. You can go and look and buy these things for yourself. You can wear a very beautiful traditional hand loom saree if you want. It’s ok. I’m fond of cotton or linen hand loom, kalamkari and chikankari personally. If you want vintage textiles search on ebay. Go to any Indian clothing website and type in gadwal or chanderi or kantha and see what this stuff looks like on a real live modern person. https://www.utsavfashion.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Gadwal

Search results for: 'Gadwal'

[omgthatdress]

Yes, I know all these types of textiles are readily available to buy, but to see extant historical textiles, or to see them presented in a way that explains how they have been used and styled throughout time, or comment on the social and economic changes that created these styles, you generally need a museum for that, and Western museums fail miserably at doing so.

I KNOW there's a lot of information about all of this out there, but very little of that information is available in English and readily accessible to people outside of India. TRUST ME, I'VE LOOKED.

Google Arts is changing that, but there's still a LOT left to be done.

[pusong-mangga]

@bipedalseal

[theinternetarchive]

textile sample books, french, c. 1840s-60s.

[thirrith]

I knitted a jabot to match my lace cuffs for a vampire costume and I love it it's SO ruffly

I basically disregarded the pattern instructions but incorporated the lace chart. the lace pattern for the trim on the top of the jabot and around the buttons are called 'bold-faggoted edging' in barbara walker's a treasury of knitting patterns which. of course I'm making it

fabric of the collar came from the bottom hem of a dress shirt which was taken out during alteration. the buckle was recycled from a decorative strap I took out of my coat. a black button was sewn onto the side of the collar so that I can secure the jabot in place while wearing it.

two pieces of lace trims on either side of the collar each consists of 19 repeats of the bold-faggoted edging pattern. after blocking they were gathered and measures 13cm each.

the lace trim surrounding the red buttons consists of 17 repeats and was gathered tightly after blocking before being sewn onto the collar, then the buttons were sewn on top.

two pieces of lace for the inner layer of the jabot: CO 144 sts work pattern chart 3 times, gathered to 15cm.

two wider and more lightly gathered lace pieces for the outer layer of the jabot: CO 120 sts work pattern chart 4 times, gathered to 15.5cm.

a brass button (which matches the ones on my cuffs - they're hand made buttons i bought many years ago from a kam taobao shop) was sewn to the gathered ends of the lace pieces on the bottom of the jabot so that I can fasten it to my shirt.

[crochethub]

Lotus flower coasters ❤️ by Mikiiiya

[milksockets]

norma minkowitz in art to wear - julie schafler dale (1986)