textiles

  1. Melodi

    FARM Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

    I used to be on the Foxfire mailing list in the 1980s. She sent out samples of the colored cottons while describing the work that went into reviving colored cottons which had been lost since the fall of the Inca Empire. When the textiles were anyalized it was discovered many were not died, but...
  2. Melodi

    EDUC Fanastic book on historical textiles for Kindle - 1.99 today only (US) May 9

    Hi posting this on the main because it is time sensitive - today only one of the major books I use in documenting historical information on European textiles and traditional women's tasks is just $1.99 on Kindle...
  3. Melodi

    Clothing The New Textile Thread (or What to Wear and How to make it when TSHTF)

    OK I see a couple of other threads are already here; we may want to do one specifically for knitting and another for weaving but lets start with one and see how it goes. Feel free to ask questions, post patterns and links to patterns/blogs/resources etc - we may also want to start a thread that...
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