#Textile Products

[shannonpurdyjones]

One side effect of my research for this novel being steeped heavily in textile history is my swelling disgust with modern fabrics.

Firstly they're so thin? Like most things you see in Old Navy or even department stores might as well be tissue paper?? Even some branded sports t-shirts I've bought in recent years (that are supposed to be 'official apparel' and allegedly decent quality) are definitely not going to hold up more than a year or two without getting little holes from wear.

This side of even two hundred years ago fabrics were made to be used for YEARS, and that's with wearing them way more often because you only owned like three sets of clothes. They were thick and well made and most importantly made to LAST. And they were gorgeous?? Some of the weaves were so fine and the drape so buttery we still don't entirely know how these people managed to make them BY HAND. Not to mention intricate patterning and details that turned even some simple garments into freaking ART.

I know this is not news, the fast fashion phenomenon is well documented. Reading so much about the amazing fabrics we used to create and how we cherished and valued them, though, is making it hard not to mourn what we lost to mass production and capitalism. Not just the quality of the clothing and fabrics themselves, but the generations of knowledge and techniques that are just gone. It makes me what to cry.

I need to get a sewing machine.

[srisakthitex]

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[reasonsforhope]

"Polish presidency of the EU Council announced breakthrough in early hours after marathon overnight talks on food waste reduction targets and measures to limit a throwaway clothing culture.

The EU has set its first ever legally binding targets for member states to cut food waste, with lawmakers agreeing on a 30% cut across retailers, restaurants, caterers and households by the end of the decade.

For food processors and manufacturers, the 2030 goal is a 10% reduction, with both targets based on the average in the three years to 2023. EU estimates suggest that over 59 million tonnes of food is shovelled into dustbins every year, representing a loss of €132 billion.

Reforms to the EU’s waste framework directive, agreed this morning [February 19, 2025] after a marathon negotiating session behind closed doors between MEPs and government delegates, also target the textiles industry.

New harmonised rules on extended producer responsibility (EPR) mean textile producers and fashion brands will have to pay a fee to help fund waste collection, sorting and recycling, based on how circular and sustainable their products are.

In a measure directly targeting ‘fast fashion’ practices such as cheap, almost disposable clothes from online platforms, EU governments are also empowered to adapt these fees based on the durability of garments.

“The rapidly growing e-commerce market brings many opportunities, but also represents a significant challenge, especially in terms of environmental protection,” the agreed text runs.

The legislation gives leeway to penalise aggressive marketing strategies that encourage clothes to be discarded before they are worn out, practices that according to the legislation are “likely resulting in an overconsumption of textile products and, consequently, an overgeneration of waste”.

Criteria that can be considered include the width of the product range offered by a retailer, and the provision or lack of a repair services and incentives.

Anti-waste campaigners welcomed EU action, but were disappointed by the level of ambition reflected in the headline targets.

“The EU and its member states committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 10 years ago, including a 50% reduction of food waste across the entire supply chain,” said Theresa Mörsen, a policy officer at the Brussels-based NGO Zero Waste Europe...

The agreement is provisional, subject to a rubber stamp from government ministers at an EU Council summit – a procedure which is normally a formality."

-via EuroNews, February 19, 2025

[mfytextile]

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[sleepgarden]

Wrought Iron ✢ Handmade Choker The design was inspired by gothic wrought iron fences. I tea dyed both the lace and cotton twill backing to match the cream needlepoint thread ^^

[kingstooth]

[guy who put a lot of thought into fantasy cuisines based on regional ingredients + cooking methods + class voice] i'm SO normal about food you guys have no idea

[suprsaturatd]

Chamomile Tea Patch

A small patch just to show off how nice it is to drink floral tea :)

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[eulaliasims]

Round 1, Midwife 2/3

Look, I just like gardening pics, ok?

Helenet loves her son so much, but she is suffering from the lack of adult socialization. Times like this are when she misses her family the most.

She's so bored, she even runs out to greet That Weird Guy From the Market, aka Elmet, when she spots him passing by. If he's Eisu's brother, he can't be that bad.

oh my god, Elmet had a positive conversation! There's hope for him after all.

Helenet: I'm so tired tonight, I was thinking of walking over to get one of those pasties from the hall instead of cooking.

Elmet: The ones with the peas and chicken? Those are so good!

Helenet: So good.

Elmet: If--if uhhhh--

Helenet: Are you alright?

Helenet: *gasp* You're wirokū!

Elmet: AROOOOOOOO--fuuuuuuck fuckity fuck.

Elmet: I'm not dangerous, I promise! Please... don't tell anyone.

Helenet: It's a secret?

Elmet: Yeah, because when people see, they go, gasp, wirokū!

Helenet: You just startled me. I... haven't seen this personally before, but my grandmother told me of three siblings she knew once who were all werewolves.

Elmet: Don't s'pose your grandmother told you about a cure?

Helenet: No. I have heard from others that wearing wolfsbane--

Elmet: Tried that. And putting it in my shoes and under the pillow and all that bullshit. Ugh, listen, you won't tell anyone about this, will you?

Helenet: No, I won't. I understand.

Elmet: Great. Now that we sorted this out, I was actually headed for the forest before I transformed.

Helenet: Be careful out there--I've never had to try patching up someone with fur.

Elmet: Yeah... thanks.

[rocketsimp]

Been a good game dev and documented what I have been up to this October. I added destructible props such as bushes, trees and snowmen. They haven been working really well in scenes While I was on holiday I squeezed in some art and played around with giving AI some gloopy squishy animations This week I have been working on the player drawing mechanic. Making the circling more accurate and applying visual feedback. Making changes to the player mechanic in most games causes it to break so there are a few bugs in the video :)

Been a good month

[gailyinthedark]

Clothing and related materials listed at the beginning of The Lady of the Well:

Red, yellow, and yellow-red brocaded silks (tunics, mantles, cushion-covers)

Gold headbands

Cordovan leather boots fastened with gold buckles

Brocaded silk mantle with ribbon of gold thread

Cordovan leather buskins fastened with gold buttons

Shirt and breeches of fine linen

Tunic, surcoat and cloak of yellow brocaded silk with a wide border

Red linen cushion covers

White linen towels and tablecloth

Green linen towels

Elephant ivory bows

Walrus ivory arrows with peacock feathers

Knives with gold blades and walrus ivory handles

Tableware of silver, gold, and buffalo horn

(source: The Mabinogion translated by Sioned Davies)

[servegrilledcheese]

i would like everyone to know that i cited bill nye the science guy in my research paper and my research advisor did not bat an eyelash

[nonstandardrepertoire]

Parashat Tətzaveh: הַשֵּׁשׁ | hasheish

I am always thinking — worrying, even — about where stuff comes from. To get plain, undyed cloth with no particular embroidered ornamentation, you need all this vast apparatus of production, all these hours and hours of labor and years of learned skill. (There are few things as humbling as trying to spin thread even and fine enough to be woven into clothing using nothing more than a drop spindle and your own two hands.) I often read visions of idyllic, utopian futures where stuff just seems to pop magically into existence, as tho generated by a Star Trek replicator. No one has to harvest the fruit; no one has to lay sewage pipes; no one has to stitch together the pillowcases. But all of these things take work, and if you put that work out of mind, it’s all too easy to put the people who do that work out of mind as well. But without people doing that work, the work does not get done, and if the work does not get done, none of these things can exist.

In many of these divrei, I’ve explored words that are difficult to translate, either because they’re ambiguous in the Hebrew or because I want to freight them with mystical meaning. Not so this week; שֵׁשׁ | sheish tidily means “linen”.

Even so, there’s something curious about its presence in this week’s parashah. G-d commands Mosheh to make the holy garments of the high priest, the garments that are to be worn when ministering in and around G-d’s holy desert tent, and in Shəmot 28:5, we learn that these garments are to be made of אֶת־הַזָּהָב וְאֶת־הַתְּכֵֽלֶת וְאֶת־הָאַרְגָּמָן וְאֶת־תּוֹלַֽעַת הַשָּׁנִי וְאֶת־הַשֵּׁשׁ | et hazahav və’et hatəkhéilet və’et ha’argaman və’et tolá’at hashani və’et hasheish | “gold and blue and purple and worm-crimson and linen”. The Torah doesn’t specify what fibers are supposed to be dyed blue and purple and red, but rabbinic tradition is firm that those fibers were to be wool. Which is to say that the high priest’s holy clothes would have been made from a mixture of wool and linen, a mixture that is elsewhere explicitly prohibited by G-d.

There’s a lot one could say about this. I’ve written elsewhere about the idea of G-d as an all-containing Unity; perhaps drawing close to G-d requires relaxing divisions that are present elsewhere, edging towards a state of being where any one thing is every other thing at once. One could bring in the mystical narrative of tzimtzum — the idea that to make room for creation, G-d first had to shrink the Divine Presence and withdraw from the world — and Biblical notions of Holiness as dangerous (see, eg, Nadav and Avihu) to suggest that the commanded separation between wool and linen is a fence, a barricade, a staking out of room for material things to exist. (The first primordial acts of Creation were acts of division, separating light from darkness, upper waters from lower; there is a sense in which division is somehow necessary for creation, a sense in which there cannot meaningfully be an I unless there is also a not-I that I am distinguishable from.) But the high priest, in interposing between G-d and the Israelites, has to let down this fence at least a little bit, to relinquish, partly, Earthly existence in order to be able to commune with the numinous.

This is all very rich ground, and someday I may come back to it, but for once, I want to set the mysticism aside and talk materiality.

In descriptions of the priest’s clothing, linen often gets short shrift. People have a lot to say about the metal threads, about the brilliant and fussy dyes, but the linen, when it’s mentioned at all, tends to be glossed as “plain” or “simple”. If you look up pictures of the holy outfit, you’ll find a lot of attention paid to spectacular, eye-catching patterns and big bold washes of intense hues; you won’t find a lot of attention paid to the undyed flax fibers that are also there.

Here is what it takes to turn linen from a plant into a thread.

After the flax has grown — and note that agriculture, especially pre-industrial agriculture, is famously hard labor, so this is already eliding out a frightful amount of work — it must be pulled out of the earth — pulled and not cut with a scythe because you want to get some of the root system too to maximize the length of the available fibers. You must then partially dry the stalks to prepare them for retting. Retting is the process of letting the flax stalks sit in stagnant water so the pith swells and bursts, making room for bacteria to eat away the pectin that binds the bast fibers (the fibers that will ultimately be spun into linen thread) to the other parts of the plant. If you have big pools of standing water (which you must monitor, because if you let the retting process go too far, the bast fibers themselves will begin to decay), this process may only take a few weeks; if you’re in a drier climate (and the wildernesses of the Torah are not known for being particularly wet), you may have to rely on morning dew for the moisture in this process, which will take considerably longer.

Once the retting has gone far enough, you must then break up the stalks completely so the fibers can be extracted. The extraction itself is done by scutching the bundles of flax — striking them repeatedly with a wooden knife to essentially scrape away the woodier parts of the plant. You must then hackle the flax, combing it with a bed of nails to separate out any short or broken fibers, leaving only the long and sturdy bast. A really skilled team might get fifteen or so pounds of usable fibers from fifty pounds of grown flax; with less-skilled teams, you should expect to lose more along the way.

You are now ready to begin to spin. There are fewer conceptual steps to spinning — you take the fibers and spin them into thread — but what steps there are take a great deal of time: Before the invention of the spinning wheel (approximately fifteen centuries after the date of this text), spinning ate up somewhere north of 80\% of the total production time of a garment, including the time necessary to process the flax stalks beforehand and to weave, cut, and sew the garment behindhand. All that retting and scutching and hackling is just a drop in the bucket next to the endless painstaking labor of twisting fiber against fiber from the distaff to the spindle.

And then, of course, you do need to weave and cut and sew those fibers into fabric and into garments.

This is, to put it mildly, an awful lot of work. And this is what is described as plain linen, as simple linen. This is the boring unremarkable stuff.

I am always thinking — worrying, even — about where stuff comes from. To get plain, undyed cloth with no particular embroidered ornamentation, you need all this vast apparatus of production, all these hours and hours of labor and years of learned skill. (There are few things as humbling as trying to spin thread even and fine enough to be woven into clothing using nothing more than a drop spindle and your own two hands.) I often read visions of idyllic, utopian futures where stuff just seems to pop magically into existence, as tho generated by a Star Trek replicator. No one has to harvest the fruit; no one has to lay sewage pipes; no one has to stitch together the pillowcases. But all of these things take work, and if you put that work out of mind, it’s all too easy to put the people who do that work out of mind as well. But without people doing that work, the work does not get done, and if the work does not get done, none of these things can exist.

We look at the high priest, and are dazzled by the finery. Shəmot’s lavish descriptions beguile us with their sensual details. A panoply of colors swirls up from the text — and then plain, simple linen caps the list off, reminding us how staggeringly much human effort goes into making even the most unadorned things.

[This has been an installment of one-word Torah. You can read the whole series here.]

[motsimages]

I am following a course on sustainable textile and fashion industry and there was a comment about how everything is made of cotton because it's cheaper as a reply to a comment I made.

Why is it cheaper though? It requires much more pesticides than other vegetable fibers. It's not easy to pick up. Why is it cheaper? If it's a tropical plant that cannot grow in colder climates, why is it cheaper when it wasn't cheap before the 19th Century?

I feel like I am the one insisting all the time on how we often forget the very first steps of textile production. The focus is on whether or not is biodegradable or organic, whether or not you can recycle it, but who does the work and how much are they paid at the agricultural level.

There was an image that explained the process of the textiles and it had a mention of the previous steps of obtaining artificial fibers, but natural fibers just appear, apparently. Wool or flax or cotton, who cares. It's natural, there is no process there. It naturally happens so there is no industry there, unlike things that require a chemical process.

[maz737]

It was really nice of the Mingei Museum to curate an entire exhibition catered specifically to my interests and mine alone

[mfytextile]

Tekstil Üretimi - Textile Production

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[dreamerinsilico]

I need to remember that getting too distracted by intense blog posts by ancient/medieval scholars about ancient and medieval farming, iron production, etc to actually play the medieval farming sim game is not actually a failure state for the night.