"a cohort-based project that responds to consumerism and the damaging effects of fast fashion. Folks who reside in the Rust Belt Fibershed region (within 250 miles of Cleveland) create an outfit through a soil-to-soil supply chain: fiber and dyes are grown, harvested, and made into a garment, and all garments are able to return to the soil at the end of their life cycle"
conservation is such a cool job
these are kind of amazing
"un projet d’œuvres multiples tissées à partir de fils électriques, ces câbles sont capables de transmettre des signaux audio, si bien que ces tissages sont aussi des pièces sonores" (a project with multiple pieces woven from electric wire, which can transmit audio signals well enough that the woven works are also works of sound art)
very cool and clever card-driven small jacquard loom build
"These works are simultaneously images and material records of their own making. Field recordings of production sounds were made at each site, then transmuted into digital spectrogram images using a linguistic audio software. Color was assigned to the wave forms, then translated into a pattern by a weaving technician to create a Jacquard fabric."
"a selection of reference books showcasing techniques and designs for embroidering and weaving letters" some truly gorgeous stuff in here
some good tips on weave structure and yarns for towels
interesting flexible circuit technology for integration with textiles
so coooool
well this is fucking horrifying. '“We call them tentacles,” Ricketts said. “When you see them wash up from the sea they’re very long, you know they can be eight feet to 30 feet (2.4m to 9.1m), and sometimes three feet wide,” she said. “When we’ve done clean-ups here, we’ve been digging 15 feet and still find tangles of clothing.”'