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Petra van Cronenburg

@ClimateJenny That's a very good analogy for the stitching! First I lay the #scraps like a paper or mixedmedia #collage (I started with paper art journals where I also embroidered things).
For the children's workshops in our cultural heritage centre I carry always a treasure box with scraps for their collages, they adore to discover the #fabrics.
You can use these scraps for many differerent collages and even for #VisibleMending: mastodon.online/@NatureMC/1123

The stitching: I became a member in an 1/

Mini talismans as brooches. Made with gabric rests, photos, paper scraps and beads.
Collage detail: Combination of words on paper with silk scraps.
Collage with paper lace and textile lace, words, pictures of roses, paper, and silk on fabric.
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AlsoPaisleyCat

PAISLEY - whether you call it a pattern, design or motif, it’s intrigued me since before I could read.

It’s been a very long time though since my regular paisley affirmation posts dropped off. It wasn’t due to lack of intention but rather, the inability of search engines to pull up new content.

For whatever reason, I have had some fresh success in finding some things to share. I genuinely hope these were written by actual reflecting human beings.

Just keep in mind, like most human endeavours, the story of paisley is more complex than one might think. Competing claims of origin, ‘ownership’, colonialism, adaptation, integration and reinterpretation all seem to be there. I’ve shared a V&A deconstruction previously, but I will just run through some of the various pieces in these posts.

First up, a textile history piece from Pattern Observer:

patternobserver.com/2014/05/20

Pattern Observer · The History of Surface Design: PaisleysEmpowering Textile and Surface Pattern Designers
#Paisley#PaisleyPattern#PaisleyMotif
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Faintdreams

#Sewists ! #Sewers (?)

TLDR:
Please give me search terms - fabric shopping online - for thinnest, lightest weight, but still has some stretch fabric. Thank you

Am #Doll crafting - specifically #sewing clothes for 11inch fashion retail dolls. barbie, rainbow High, Monster High etc

for 1/6 scale, i need lightest poss weight, with some stretch #fabrics

I shop online - I know not ideal - what terms should I look for to find the thinnest, lightest weight , but still has some stretch fabrics?

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Soh Kam Yung

"Researchers have developed a chemical-processing technique that can break down fabrics into reusable molecules, even when they contain a mixture of materials.

The process, outlined in a Science Advances paper on 3 July, shows that chemical recycling can give old textiles a new lease of life. If scaled up, it could help to tackle the growing mountain of waste generated by the fashion industry"

nature.com/articles/d41586-024

www.nature.com‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful moleculesFast fashion creates millions of tonnes of waste each year — could clever chemistry help to tackle the problem?
#Clothes#Fabrics#Recycling
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Petra van Cronenburg

I am preparing a #museum workshop for children about different #fabrics and #culturalHeritage.

I would like to show them #nature: What #animals do you know that #spin #threads / #fabrics or ‘cut fabrics’? Spontaneously I can think of: #spiders, #butterflies, #moths (silkworms), leaf-cutter #ants

edit: Thanks a million for your wonderful inspirations! It will not only be great for children but also for a later summer podcast episode! I am so amazed by all these skills in the animal kingdom.

Spider's web against the light of the setting sun.
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AnneTheWriter

A random musing...

Since Twitter posts are called tweets...

And #Mastodon posts are called #toots (the sound that the Mastodon character makes)...

Shouldn't #Threads posts be called "pills"?🤔 (That's the word for those loose threads on fabric.)

It would certainly lessen the confusion about individual posts in threads being referred to as "A thread" (🧵?)-- Is that Threads post part of an actual thread🧵, or is that "thread" just one stand-alone post on Threads? 🫤🤷‍♀️

I say we all start calling them #pills !💊

What do you think?

A piece of untainted blue fabric, laying haphazardly on a brown surface. The edges of the material have loose threads, also called "pills."
#Threadiverse#Meta#SocialMedia
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Benita Skinner

The crazy quilt piece I’m currently working on, is made up of 24 tiny fabric patches.
I decided I was going to cover each seam (23 of them), with a different embroidery stitch.
It’s been fun stitching new-to-me stitches – my favourite new one is that double blue one, near the top.
It’s called: Pekinese Stitch 🥰👏💙💖

Happy Stitching! 😊🪡🧵

Crazy quilting.
#quilting#sewing#fabrics
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