#fabric of life

[studiokultuurscape]

Corporal architecture: when the materiality speaks on the metaphysical space.

- the pavillion 'untitled' by Jef Meyer is part of the Beaufort 24 festival at the Belgian Coast, situates itself in Middelkerke. The Triënnale curated by Els Wuyts is themed 'fabrics of life'

[marzipanandminutiae]

I hate how doing any kind of yarn craft basically means you can only produce plastic clothes or it's going to be 300$ in yarn minimum. Every yarn has some acrylic and the natural stuff is so wildly expensive. I would love to use 100% natural fibers but the options are limited

God, yeah. The price of natural-fiber materials is insane.

My average budget for like a full silk gown, trim and notions included, is around $200- and that's ONLY because I live near a discount fabric store that gets bolt-ends from big fashion houses and sells silk for like $10/yard. Wool is insane, for some reason- that place only has coating (heavyweight) and suiting (lighter but feels like plastic even though it's not), so making a dress or anything not outerwear from wool involves shopping online and some painful spending.

I just bought 6 yards of wool to make my Dream Dressing-Gown. It was $210 for JUST the wool- I still have to get lining fabric, possibly an embroidery machine pattern, embroidery thread (because my friend who's generously letting me use her machine only has polyester and rayon). Part of that was shipping from freaking Poland because finding a website that has non-stretch, dark green wool at any weight below "snow gear" in the States is nigh impossible.

(Or that actually discloses the weight in a meaningful way; that's another problem I've encountered. "Brushed wool!" Great, but how heavy is it? "It's wool!" Not helpful. It's like they can't fathom wanting to use wool for anything besides heavy outerwear. Which they probably can't, because that's all we're accustomed to seeing it as nowadays.)

Like I'm tempted to blame militant v*gans for the inaccessibility of silk and wool, but honestly, capitalism was probably just waiting for the excuse to turn all our clothes to crap. I doubt there's been enough outcry about them to push those fabrics out of reach, the way there has been for fur and leather (to clarify: pro-treating animals humanely, anti-plastic clothing, not opposed to the use of aforesaid materials if those animals are properly cared-for and humanely killed).

At least you can still find cotton and some linen things in stores- for now. They're still more expensive, though, and limited in what weaves are often seen. Cotton velvet, for example? Forget it.

It's so disturbing and frustrating.

[madisoncounty]

She swallowed past a lump in her throat, looked up into her son’s eyes. "Paul…I want you to do something for me: choose the course of happiness. Your desert woman, marry her if that’s your wish. Defy everyone and everything to do this. But choose your own course. I…."

LADY JESSICA & CHANI KYNES IN DUNE: PART TWO (2024)

[duxuebing]

Photography by Xuebing Du

Instagram: xuebing.du

whispers of the sky and sea

[snifsnoof]

i am always begging people to draw more toy/living doll jimmy 🙏

hes one of them wind up dolls

[bogdreamz]

korvo lost and farting 0 stars for you my boy

[sweetmapple]

Mostly Hiring manager, but HR manager and PR manager too

[psrj]

character design test

[aquapolis]

do you guys see my vision

[impybutt]

Modern physics in a nutshell

[tppart]

Happy Halloween my guys and ghouls! 👻

[stoshasaurus]

I know I talk about a lot of machines on this account but I will say now, first and foremost, that my favorite machine OF ALL TIME is the Fabrication Machine from 9

It is seriously one of the most gorgeous designs for a machine I’ve ever seen. Its story, its design, its sounds, its motives…AUGH.

Look at the fucking model too

I’d give my life for you, Fab. Please let me. Please.

[marzipanandminutiae]

giant bags of thread collected by old ladies over their lifetimes and never used, then donated to antique shops or sold on FB Marketplace, save me

image source

protect and preserve me, immense ziplock bags full of 50 years' "oh but I have to have the EXACT SHADE of this fabric even though I'll never use 300 yards of thread!"

("Marzi why not buy new thread?" 99% of it is plastic and finding more than a handful of colors in cotton thread is incredibly rare in brick-and-mortar stores. let alone thread in fibers besides polyester and cotton, or buttonhole twist)

("come on, now, Marzi- THREAD can't possibly make you sweat more or catch fire and stick to your skin while burning, and isn't that your reasoning for using only natural-fiber fabrics?" listen. Irrational Brain Like When Zero Plastic. don't @ me)

[peacerisendove]

Honestly, I love how Melinoë looks like a little glowing onion as a baby.

[spicyvampire]

Great's Dying Brain vs Reality: Tyme being very knowledgeable

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 3 // EP. 6

+ Bonus :

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

A doodle of a couple misc hcs I have about Gman's anatomy