Half of the skirt!
Beading should take me two weeks. Gold work another week. I’m thinking I can start pleating and smocking by end of March
Then I need to work on my commissions 😬
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Deshima
@deshima
dutch bio-med PhD, practicioner of the unholy combination of dance and martial arts, eldritch collectioner of crafty hobbies, blithe follower of life's path and so far enjoying most of it. she/her and they/them (both are correct) and just generally queer and here.
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This. Is. So. Awesome!
I mean the details! The designs! The skill! The effort!
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Sometimes you have projects that are entirely whimsical and unnecessary while you have hosts of other projects that still need doing and yet you’ll still do them. This project was one of those for me.
For some reason I had decided that I could use a new sleeping bag for when I go to castlefest despite the fact I have a couple already for different temperatures and that no-one would ever see it except for me since it was going to stay in my tent. On top of that I decided to make it a proper leafy quilt just to make it extra complicated.
First of course there was creating the pattern and cutting all the fiddly bits of fabric
Then assembling the quilt top and while not shown ironing the shit out of it to make sure it would lay flat.
Basting the bugger so that I could machine quilt it without too many issues
Quilting!
Aaaand finally adding the zipper and binding
All in all for an entirely unnecessary project I am quite happy with it since it is a bit roomier than most sleeping bags which has always been my main issue with sleeping bags and it turned out looking a lot better than I expected for a project I only vaguely planned ( that said you don’t want to see the inside because that is a pieced mess)
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As someone who grew up being spoonfed franco-belgian comics there is only one way to celebrate the ides of March and that is by citing Asterix, the Gaul as much as I can.
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𝖧𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒 𝖯𝗂 𝖣𝖺𝗒!!!
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Finally finished the leaf waistcoat video!! It is 58 minutes.
Aaaaaahhh! It’s sooo pretty!
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nesgadol
reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful
This is one of my favorite sites on here because everyone who reblogged it truly believes it because their moms won’t actually see it
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One of the first pieces of clothing I bought when exploring my own style as a teenager was a denim waistcoat. I have worn that thing for years and I only threw it out when moving last spring when I discovered it was by then worn so thin I wouldn’t be able to repair with all the good will in the world. But honestly, I still like and wear waistcoats, so I figured I might make myself a new one. The original waistcoat was a bit atypical since it wasn’t lined but had facings that had been very visibly topstitched. I figured I probably wouldn’t find an exact pattern like that, so I drafted my own pattern using Charmpatterns’ Patsy blouse as a sloper.
And then I figured out I didn’t want to make an exact clone of my old waistcoat, so I went to town with sashiko. The sashiko motif is the maru bishamon, which is supposed to represent the armor of Bishamon, one of the Seven Lucky Gods. So yes, I sort of added symbolic armour to the sides, which is why I kept referring to this waistcoat as the “Ironsides Waistcoat” in my head.
The end results
The sides are teensy bit too wide at the top but it is very much wearable and that way I can more easily layer up under it.
The Ironsides Waistcoat when worn.
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In my ongoing quest in seeing how long and how often I can use the indigo vat I started almost a month ago, now officially named Marta, have another shibori piece of clothing. This time a fairly simple tank top for which I used the classic hippy spiral scrunch.
Aaand the full end results after eight dips.
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From the article:
“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”
This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.
This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.
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The last project to go in the indigo vat so far was a shibori blouse.
The pattern is the patsy blouse from Charmpatterns with my usual modifications to account for my martial artist’s shoulders.
I wanted to try to combine kumo shibori with gradient dyeing but given that i had seen with my bedsheets that kumo shibori could be very effective in actually keeping the fabric undyed i went for a looser partial tie.
Given that i had seen with my bedsheets and which was confirmed after the first dip of my shirt that keeping the white parts completely white could be an excerise in futility, i dipped the shirt in its entirety on the second dip before gradually dipping less and less fabric on each following dip.
The result after rinsing, neutralizing and washing was very satisfying and i am once again very happy with the results.
Now, a question to the more expert dyers out there. Does anyone know how long you can keep a fructose indigo vat going, and does anyone have ideas what else i could dye in the meantime?
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The thing is with an indigo vat is that once you get one going it can last for a while before it gets exhausted
So figured i would take advantage and knock off two more projects of my lists of wich the first was a shibori noren for my kitchen since it doesn’t have a door.
Sewing the noren was easy enough but then came the most time consuming part which was actually tying the shibori since this time i wanted to use a combination of stitched shibori and kumo shibori to create a landscape inspired by some of my favorite paintings of 36 views of mount Fuji by Hokusai.
I tried to make some pictures of the actual stitching and my quick and dirty concept sketch but honestly despite using contrasting thread it is barely visible
Tightening everything also was a bit of a drag but went fairly painlessly without any broken strings ( i learned my lesson the last time i attempted this and used topstitching thread instead of regular).
Then again after waking up the vat on to the dyeing. Again few pictures of that because of the inherent mess of it.
Since this time the project and the other project getting dyed were much smaller than my bedsheets i managed to dip them both eight times which after rinsing, neutralizing and washing resulted in a very nice deep blue.
Overall i am very happy with it and hopefully the noren will look good once it hangs as well.
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Years ago I cut a huge amount of extra large cotton to make some shibori sheets but an earlier rather lacklustre attempt at shibori with indigo had made me a bit hesitant and i had other projects that required my attention besides. I pushed the project off the burner and then promptly forgot about it.
Some of my sheets are now showing their wear however and are tearing up in several places.
Luckily I remembered from the cleaning up of my stash in april that I still had those precut sheets squirelled away and I had also received the book “Journeys in Natural Dying” which contains some thorough instructions on indigo dying which made me a bit more confident at trying shibori with indigo again.
So I dug up those precut sheets and promptly ran into my first problem, in that I had cut the cotton for a duvet of 200x220cm and my current duvet is 220x240cm. But I still had some of that extra large cotton left that I hadn’t cut up so I cut a few very long strips to sew on later to make my new sheets large enough.
Now on to the dyeing !
First of course was scouring my cotton. I didn’t have a pot large enough to do that by hand so i did that in my washing machine by running the cotton on the hottest program i had and with washing soda instead of my usual detergent. The general opinion out there is that by hand is better since you can control the temperature better but given that I was going to do shibori and my dyeing was going to be uneven anyway i figured the washing machine scour was gonna be okay.
Second step was to set up the mother. I went for a fructose vat since that is what i already had in house and they are said to be more forgiving anyway. I mixed up 40 gr of indigo, 80 gr of lime and 120 of fructose for a pot that probably ended up being 8 L. Yes I eyeballed some things, shame on me.
The next day i mixed the mother with the rest of my pot and let it rest while i tied up my sheets and strips. For the big central pieces I tried my hand at kumo shibori, while for the strips I tried out itajime shibori.
In the meantime the vat had settled and to my delight it was a nice golden yellow unlike the last time i messed with indigo where i barely managed to convince it go an unenthusiastic green.
I only have a few pictures of the actual dyeing since after the first dips my hands were continuously either wet or blue and i didn’t have the patience to continously wash my hands.
I ended up dipping the central pieces 6 times and the strips 5 times with a couple of breaks to cook and eat dinner while letting my vat settle since it got really disturbed half way through ( i might need a bigger pot next time).
Once i was done dyeing i rinsed my pieces and then neutralied them by soaking them in slightly acidic water ( household vinegar is a god sent). I then washed them again the next day at which point i could finally evaluate the colors. It ended up slightly lighter than what i was aiming for but still much much darker than the last time i tried dying with indigo so i was pretty happy.
Then it was a matter of sewing everything up and then enjoying sleeping in my very own homemade shibori sheets…
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And together with the last socks of the year behold that last sewing project of the year: the blue monarch cardigan.
Hopefully it will be a bit predictive for next year given that 2025 was a fairly productive year craftwise but otherwhise a supremely shitty one for me.
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My last pair of socks of the year, but my first set of long socks for this winter. Behold the amazingly scrappy Frankensocks.
I knitted a lot of socks last winter and given that even with my Hobbity feet I still only wear size 39 I ended up with quite a few leftovers.
Then I saw @jamiemccanless scrappy socks and figured: “There is an idea”. Of course I still have plenty of full skeins that will also require my attention now that the Christmas crafting craze is over but I still have enough leftovers for at least one more pair of scrappy frankensocks if not two and any leftovers from that will probably be used to make hexipuffs since I have an intense need to make myself a beekeeper’s quilt.
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So unlike the other recipients of my christmas/yule crafting craze my darling mom also has a tumblr so I could only post this after the 24th.
Last year, I made a linen shirt for my mother that she could use as a base for a castlefest costume if she wanted… she ended up not going last summer, but she promised she’d come with me this year. She intends to make herself a steampunk costume, and obviously, I wasn’t going to spoil her fun making that for her. But leathercraft is one of the few hobbies we don’t have in common, so I figured I could make her accessories instead…. so off I went to the second-hand shop were I managed to find three very cute teacups and saucers. Two of them are now in my cupboard for whenever I want to enjoy and take the time for my rarer teas while I used the last one to make a tea-cup holster so that my darling mom can enjoy her tea in style wherever she goes.
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I think everybody who likes to make gifts for christmas, knows that there is always one that only gets finished either on the day before or literally on Christmas eve itself.
This year, for me, it was these mittens.
My beloved dad is a very typical dad in terms of gifts in that he never wants anything, especially when I want to give him something homemade. In addition he always takes religiously good care of whatever my mom and I do make for him which is actually very flattering but a bit annoying when you think of making a scarf but he still wears the one you crocheted him 7 years ago.
This year, it looked like it was going to be the same song and dance, but luckily, my darling mom came to the rescue. Apparently, my darling dad came across some mittens with fingers during my parents’ holiday to Scotland and almost bought them, but my mother almost literally dope-slapped him before he could, saying: “ Honey you have both a daughter and a wife who knit and it is going to be Christmas in two months.” So he left them in the shop, and I finally had an idea for what to make him. I have made mittens before, so thinking it would be a fairly quick make, I did leave them a bit to the last minute as the other gifts took up more time than expected. I had, however, never made mitts with fingers, and that ended up being a bit more fiddly than expected, meaning that instead of being a bit last minute it became a lot last minute especially when the thumb of the second mitten decided to be a gremlin and I had to ladder down an entire section to pick up several stitches I had dropped without noticing. But I prevailed , the mittens are finished in the nick of time and tomorrow I will hopefully get to see my dad’s delighted face when he gets them.
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My little brother was one of those boys who adored everything knight. One of the cutest childhood photos of him is of him riding pillion with a knight re-enactor smiling like he just won the lottery and a lifetime supply of cherry gummies to boot. It should surprise no one he is now an enthusiastic DnD player.. his fiancé/my sister in law on the other hand, is an archaeologist with an unapologetic whimsical streak, and I suspect my adorable nephew is going to take after his dad and will love knights too… so for Christmas this year, I figured I would finally make use of a pattern I bought a few years ago on a whim and make the whole family matching knight sweaters. In case you are wondering, my little brother’s favourite colour is green, my sister-in-law’s is pink and I am kinda proud I managed to combine the two colour schemes without clashing too much for my favourite munchkin.
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Although I ended up weaving until the wee hours of the morning, I also managed to finish the sash in time for the midwinter Fair.
It ended up a bit messy and uneven in some parts since my madcap idea of combining two different methods of creating a warp meant it was almost impossible to maintain an even tension but overall I am pretty satisfied with it and I got quite a few compliments at the Fair.
What I also like is that the pattern I chose for the tablet woven edges ended up looking nice on both sides, meaning that unlike most cardwoven bands, I didn’t have to worry which side was showing.
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Because of the time crunch I really hesitated wether I would make a pair of turnshoes/ankle boots for Alexandra of Novgorod.
In the end however I succumbed to the siren song of a new crafty hobby.
The shoes turned and well but before I added the laces and the sneaky rubber sole.
Myself perched on a stack of books like the gremlin child I am to provide proper pressure to glue my cheaty cheater rubber soles in the hope it will make my turnshoes last a bit longer
My new turnshoes with laces and soles, finally on my feet only to discover that in my fear of making them too small I actually made them a bit too big… but they fit well enough to not be too much of a bother so I wore them yesterday at the midwinter Fair.
Which immediately became a true stress test since while immensely fun the midwinter Fair was muddy and later rainy as well.
I discovered that the next generation of turnshoe really needed to fit well and snugly at the heel and ankle since my turnshoes like to droop there and if I was not careful I occasionally would end up walking on the thinner upper leather and not the ticker, rubber covered sole. I also discovered I need to find better glue to glue the rubber sole because after even one day in the wet, the rubber sole already wants to detach a bit.
Finally the babies after having suffered through the midwinter Fair drying on their lasts since I would like them to keep their shape as best as possible after they got absolutely soaked in the downpour that concluded the midwinter fair
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Acceptable reasons for humans in reality to burst into song: It’s a concert or a rehearsal or something.
Acceptable reasons for people in Lord of the Rings to burst into song: We are in a kings hall, we are in a pub, we are about to eat some really nice food, we have just eaten some really nice food, there is a pretty tree, there is a pretty rock, there are lots of pretty trees, It’s raining, it’s stopped raining, there is a pretty tree, we are going into battle tomorrow, orcs are ugly, my ancestor was cool, my ancestor was shit, my ancestor was cooler than yours dispite starting this shit, I miss home, I don’t miss home, oh look some grass, the past is a thing that existed and it was shit, the past is a thing that existed and it was awesome, I am in love, there is a river, there is a pretty tree, my ancestor was a tree, we’re on horses now, I’m bored, I’m hungry, someone has died, elves exist, men exist, hobbits exist, dwarfs exist, 10,000 years ago there was a pretty lady, my ancestor was a pretty lady, someone else has died, my sword is cool, my sword is cooler, my ancestor had a sword once he named it Jeff, oh look a tree, I love trees, I am vibing with this monolith, this tree is now officially my bestie, there is a pretty city somewhere, there is an ugly city somewhere, I’ve killed something, I want to kill something, I don’t want to kill something, oh look a wife, I have a wife, I have a son, I am drunk, I am scared, I am bored, once there was this lady she was so pretty everyone she looked at died of awe, you’re pretty, I am pretty, I wish I was home, I wish I was a tree, oh look stars, my ancestor was a star.
We’re doing the dishes and mocking a hobbit
there’s a spider
Another consequence of the ubiquity of sound recording and reproducing technology: people have forgotten how, just a few generations ago, like five people away down the chain from us, the way music existed was like 99% people bursting into song when they felt like it.
fireworks are cool and colorful, look at that star, that star is my dad, marco polo-ing purposes,
Or actual real life reasons people would burst into songs not even one or two generations ago.
Hey we are cutting the wheat and we need to set up a good rhythm that everyone can keep up the whole day, hey it’s lunch time let’s call everyone under the tree shade, hey we’re done for the day and the scythes need sharpening, hey we are going home from the fields and our wives in the valley below need to know we’re coming so that they can start up dinner, hey we had a long hard day today and tomorrow will be just as though let’s have a bit of fun to keep the spirits up, hey we’re going up the mountain to chop wood today and we need to call the guys from the next valley over to help hauling the trunks, hey those trunks are heavy we need to set a good rhythm to heave them together,….
*** actual georgian folk music I learned***
Hey we need to haul up this heavy anchor/big sail in a smooth, cordinated manner without dropping it, hey we are spending months at sea and our captain is a bit of an ass, hey we need to waulk this cloth together, hey this work is necessary but a bit boring and we want to gossip, hey our king/ emperor/duke is a bit (or a lot) of an ass and plainly saying can get you into trouble
****every single English and French working song and shanty I’ve ever heard***
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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
“Where did u get all this”
“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”
“oh yeah tru”
Op can may we inquire about the website list
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
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)
Medium weight is what I’d go with.
And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.
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
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
If you’re in Canada,
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 😁
For those of us who live on the right side of the Atlantic and particularly the Northern part of it.
Sells fabric for re-enactment, the wools are not cheap but the linen is very reasonably priced and they have some light ones that are great for blouses.
https://www.dutchtailorette.com/
Same as classic fabrics sells fabrics and haberdashery for re-enactment. The wools are still not very cheap but cheaper than classic fabric but on the other hand they don’t always have everything in stock
General fabric store with a very diverse range from softshell, to some very good waterproofs to cottons and everything in between. They have a very broad range of wools from fairly expensive to the cheapest I’ve found online that is not mixed up with something else and of good quality.
General fabric store with a fairly broad range of linens and linen/cotton/viscose mixes. They also have a very light silk cotton mix that works very well as lining but doesn’t break your budget. The color range of that one is very small though. The rest of their silks are expensive but they do sell liberty silks if you want something that pops. Their pure wools tend to be expensive but occasionally they manage to snatch the end of a stock that they sell much cheaper.
General fabric store, they are very very cheap in general and so is their linen. The color range is pretty broad but the linen itself is on the heavy side. Great for a pair of summer pants or a skirt but less so for a blouse. They also have some really really cheap boiled wool but the quality is honestly very meh.
General fabric store. Their regular stock is on the more expensive side and is rather variable depending on what they can get though they usually have silks,linens and wools . Their sales are to die for, however, so this is one to regularly check to see if there is something you like and then immediately snatch.
Repost to add a few more addresses I forgot.
End of stock reseller, they sell quality suiting and coating wools for usually no more than 24 euro’s the meter, linens for usually no more than 20 and often less, their silks vary more wildly but they usually have at least a few that are around 25 and right now they have silk lining fabric at 15 euro the meter which is frankly a steal. They are an end of stock reseller however, so if you waited too long and its gone, it will remain gone.
Slightly off course but could be relevant since the different diy crowds do overlap. If you need cheaper but good quality leather and live in the Netherlands ( though I suspect the guy also ships to the rest of the benelux) this guy is an absolute treasure. He does not have an actual webshop, if you want to buy, you have to e-mail him and tell him what you precisely want. He will either find something that fits those exact needs or be very honest with you if he doesn’t have it and will usually ship it to you the same day you pay the invoice. If you don’t quite know what you need for a project he is also very knowledgeable about which leather will be more appropriate and he will give you honest advice about it. His veg tan leather is often 2/3 or even half the price I can find elsewhere, and he has some lovely lamb nappa that are perfect for gloves and also ridiculously low priced. He does regularly have a stand at fabric fairs and he is always there at Castlefest if you like to touch your leather first before buying.
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I had a fairly productive week-end and managed to finish Alexandra’s woolen overtunic. It is really really warm, maybe even too warm so we’ll see how it goes next week-end. If it passes muster I think of adding some tablet woven bands later to hide my sewing machine stitches.
The collar is embroidered but unfortunately my camera does not do justice to the really saturated teals and blues I used.
I also made myself a pointy cap out of leftover wool scraps which I edged with rabbit fur. Unfortunately,I couldn’t make a picture of me wearing it without looking weird or laughing so this is all you’ll get of that. Like the tunic if it passes muster next week I think of adding some tablet woven bands.
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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
“Where did u get all this”
“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”
“oh yeah tru”
Op can may we inquire about the website list
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
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)
Medium weight is what I’d go with.
And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.
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
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
If you’re in Canada,
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 😁
For those of us who live on the right side of the Atlantic and particularly the Northern part of it.
Sells fabric for re-enactment, the wools are not cheap but the linen is very reasonably priced and they have some light ones that are great for blouses.
https://www.dutchtailorette.com/
Same as classic fabrics sells fabrics and haberdashery for re-enactment. The wools are still not very cheap but cheaper than classic fabric but on the other hand they don’t always have everything in stock
General fabric store with a very diverse range from softshell, to some very good waterproofs to cottons and everything in between. They have a very broad range of wools from fairly expensive to the cheapest I’ve found online that is not mixed up with something else and of good quality.
General fabric store with a fairly broad range of linens and linen/cotton/viscose mixes. They also have a very light silk cotton mix that works very well as lining but doesn’t break your budget. The color range of that one is very small though. The rest of their silks are expensive but they do sell liberty silks if you want something that pops. Their pure wools tend to be expensive but occasionally they manage to snatch the end of a stock that they sell much cheaper.
General fabric store, they are very very cheap in general and so is their linen. The color range is pretty broad but the linen itself is on the heavy side. Great for a pair of summer pants or a skirt but less so for a blouse. They also have some really really cheap boiled wool but the quality is honestly very meh.
General fabric store. Their regular stock is on the more expensive side and is rather variable depending on what they can get though they usually have silks,linens and wools . Their sales are to die for, however, so this is one to regularly check to see if there is something you like and then immediately snatch.
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So for the sash I wanted to make for Alexandra of Novgorod I had the ,either absolutely brilliant or absolutely dumb, idea to combine two different ways to make a shed. So two two sets of cards on the edges with a simple oseberg variation and string heddles in the middle. To my surprise, it s actually somewhat working, though the tension is iffy, the weave itself is not the most even and it is definitely not fast. We’ll see if manage to finish this on time…
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Aaand Alexandra of Novgorod’s belt is done!!
Now on to the sash to wear over the coat and which I will post soonish and the woolen over tunic.