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I’m making a bomber-style jacket with 100% wool and I’m looking for advice or even a tutorial on how to prepare the fabric for sewing.

I would normally pre-wash and iron all my materials in advance of cutting the pattern pieces, but I know wool requires special treatment. I’m not sure how to prepare it for the type of care it’s going to receive in the future — whether cold / delicate wash and cool dryer, dry cleaning, or spot cleaning — nor do I know how much shrinkage and felting would be acceptable in order to get the sizing washed out.

Some specifics about the other materials: the lining will be a repurposed, second-hand bemburg garment that has certainly been cleaned many times in the

I’m sorry you got so pissy about me mistakenly setting up shop near your solo camp that you decided to steal my backpack, and eliminate my nearest well site. Best of luck finding your tools.

This is a general question, I don’t have an item in-hand.

In modern textiles I have no trouble telling cotton and linen apart, but the main indicators I use are the density of the weave and the presence of slubs. I have seen a number of antique textiles (hankies, tablecloths, doilies) that are much finer and denser than modern linen, but have slubs in the fibers.

Should I expect older cotton to be just a little bit stubby, or am I finding a quality of linen that’s no longer available?

What’s the key for clicking things obscured by players and objects?

I would rather not replay the tutorial and lose all the progress on my low-pop practice game for just a single piece of information, but I can’t find the answer anywhere.

I’ve been following Kneecap for years — ever since I decided to learn Gaeilge — and it was a pleasure to finally get to see the lads live; I feel immensely lucky that I managed to get tickets. Thanks to the whole crowd for an amazing show, the energy was fantastic!

The only disappointment was the lack of cds and posters, really.

I found some nice, old linen pillow cases at Goodwill recently with filet crochet lace trim inserted by hand, and obvious machine stitching on the seam. The thing I’m having trouble finding out more about it the manufacturing process that made the linen.

It’s tubular. I can see areas that are similar to a selvedge edge, but there are no seams on the case except to close it at the end. The “selvedge” portions just continue back into the normal weave with no seams like a modern T-shirt without side seams.

I can’t find any information on this process, all my searches for “tubular woven fabric” turn up info about knits or specialty industrial fabrics.

I’m interested in textile history so I

I heard another teacher read this book when I was a classroom aide, and she said it was a favorite of hers as a child (baby boomer).

In the book, a princess and a handful of other characters exist in a one-of-a-kind antique book written by the main “real world” character’s relative (maybe a great grandmother or aunt?). The book is either damaged or lost, and the characters are having trouble enacting the arc of the story. Things change a little as the story is being re-written or re-discovered by the in-universe reader.

In the end, the story that you as the reader just finished (and the in-universe reader just wrote) becomes the new story that the characters live within.

In the question about the movie Contact, the alien DID NOT take the form of her biological father. That answer was technically correct (which is the best kind of correct).

The man who the character believed to be her biological father was her mother’s husband. Her mother had an affair, and the husband chose to forgive, and to raise the main character as his own. Her biological father was the man who her mother married after the death of “dad”, the man she believed to be her stepfather.

I’m looking for information about a technique that seems to be interchangeably known as insertion embroidery and “faggoting” which you all probably know from the woven herringbone stitch joining the pieces of a St. Brigitta Cap.

I want to know about other extant examples, other things to call this technique in my searches, why it would be used (like, why not do decorative embroidery after the seam is closed in cases where there’s not a gap between the two edges, is it quicker or sturdier somehow?), and I suppose I’m curious if it’s a technique that’s only found in a few cultures vs being a relatively common practice.

Thanks!

My apartment faces north toward the corridor, and I’ve been watching a group huge vultures circle and patrol for the last week. When I first moved to the area a few years back I saw a young, fluffy one actually on the ground but I had never seen the adults for more than a second.

Something to keep my attention occupied while I sew, and maybe interesting for the rest of you too.

It was 4 years ago this April. He died of pneumonia that he developed after he got the flu. We were separated but it was no less traumatic to have the 32 year old father of our son die after being sent home from the ER and urgent care multiple times that week.

I don’t know how I’m not in full meltdown over the pandemic crisis. I was finally getting to a place where it didn’t feel scary all the time, and now this.

Not many people have checked in about it either. Sometimes I think they forget what happened.