#because i'm already slipping down the sally pointer rabbit hole | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

senadimell · 8 months

Text

The thing about belonging to a guild is THE GUILD LIBRARY because while ravelry-style fiber arts are Popular Internet subjects, there's been thriving subcultures around fiber arts that go way deeper and a lot of the actual books you can find on the subject were written prior to 2002 and were self-published.

currently restraining myself from buying one of two used copies I've been able to find of a particular book because my brain is so so susceptible to scarcity, and scarce this book is.

also the only book I've been able to get my hands on about nalbinding was published in Oslo in 1961 in norwegian.

I guess what I'm saying is that I've finally hit a niche that a well-equipped university library wouldn't be able to automatically fulfill. (my major in undergrad was not specific enough that I had to track down any particular tomes. Maybe one or two articles from the 50s for a historiography paper, but that was it and pdf-scannable).

#not a snub against ravelry my beloved #but there's amigurumi and then there's a book on tablet weaving published in 1975 that was basically reinventing the wheel #heaven forbid i get into sprang or something even more obscure but heaven help me when i do #because i'm already slipping down the sally pointer rabbit hole #the internet is not supreme

4 notes · View notes