interesting anectdata: of the 7 #fabrics stores i usually peruse for deals, only 3 are offering #July4th sales and all but one have raised the threshold for getting free delivery. ALL OF THEM HAVE RAISED PRICES. none is affiliated with Wonky Luthor’s website.
in other words? #MAGAnomics is fucking the very petit burgeois (aka small business owners, some singlenaires) that traditionally vote #Republican #GOP and went hard for #Trump.
3/n And yesterday, we had a treasure box for us volunteers! Pieces too young, too uninteresting, or with damages, too good to give away. Our enthusiastic seamstresses come up with ideas to give the #fabrics and, above all, hand #embroidery and #lace a new life. We sell the handmade tote bags, cards and cushions to benefit the #museum.
But before that, we put on a "private" fashion show behind the till (our visitors were distracted by a performance.) We giggled like schoolchildren as we put
2/n of the deceased. And most of it is better off with social distributors. However, restoration is often no longer worthwhile. Biggest problems: Breaks due to creases, rust or mould, stains, and holes (mites, mice, neglect). And the further the 20th century progresses, the worse the materials become. This also applies to synthetic fibres, which emerged in the 19th century (artificial silk): from the plastic age onwards, they disintegrate over time.
“Rachel Halton still doesn’t know who made the decision, in October 2022, to summarily decommission the $160,000 #JacquardLoom that had been a cornerstone of #RMIT’s renowned #weaving and #textile #design courses for 20 years.
Nearly 3 metres high and weighing more than half a tonne, the loom was an intricate machine of polished wood, steel, compressed air and #mechatronics: simultaneously a grand monument to the golden age of the #TextileIndustry and a modern #tool for weaving strands of #yarn into intricate #fabrics. Halton knew she couldn’t let it end up in landfill.”
“The loom was the only one of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and one of only a handful in the world, bought for the university’s #Brunswick campus in the early 2000s, soon after Halton started teaching there. It “elevated what you could do as an artist”, she says.
Students enrolled just to have access to it. International artists visited especially to weave on it. It became integral to Halton’s creative practice.”
“Watt has “a very special affinity” with the loom. It isn’t just the time she spent working on it at RMIT, or that it sat in her home for months after it was rescued. She’s also been using her coding skills – self-taught – to update its electronics. It’s as though technology is lapping back on itself, given that #Jacquard #PunchCards inspired the basis of #ModernComputing.”
This is why Australia can’t compute.
#RachelHalton / #Tech / #programmIng / #BuildingStuff <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/25/a-new-room-for-a-doomed-loom-and-the-battle-to-save-australias-slowly-dying-crafts>
https://www.europesays.com/2059773/ Familiar retailer will move into this closing Joann store’s space – WFTV #ann #Building #business #cloth #commerce #craft #crafts #Design #emblem #fabric #fabrics #handmade #Icon #industry #JO #JoAnnFabrics #JoAnnStores #JoannFabric #JoannFabrics #logo #mall #marquee #retail #sew #sewing #shop #sign #space #store #storefront #Style #supplies #tailor #textile #thread
A friend was searching for a Mastodon instance related to #crafting, esp. to #knitting #stiching #sewing #fabrics. Do you have recommendations which server to join for her?
Freundin sucht einen Mastodon-Server, der Themen wie #Basteln, besonders #Stricken #Häkeln #Sticken #Nähen #Stoffe gewidmet ist. Habt ihr Empfehlungen, wo sie ihren Account einrichten könnte?
My fabric arrived! 
The "sand" coloured cotton fabric is definitely paler than the pictures, but I don't mind.
The wool/viscose blend is beautiful and will make an excellent pair of pants and/or a suit jacket. 
If I wanted the exact colour I would have been slightly disappointed in the cotton I suppose, but otherwise wastedfabrics.com was a good experience.
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