#watered silk

[vintagefashionplates]

Watered silk or moiré

1860s silk dress made from a unique so-called watered silk fabric. Watered silk or moiré silk was made by embossing patterns onto the surface of the silk, using high pressure and steam rollers. This creates patterns that look like small waves or ripples in water.

[dozydawn]

[njere]

Hidden behind a mask. In a city full of ghosts.

[blighted-elf]

Jade Empire - 2024 Replay

[frotees-corner]

/costume and fabric nerd mode on/

I am rewatching Bridgerton for research and inspiration purposes, and then Kate walks into a room and UGH the way silk moves and reflects the light. (Yes, you can tell the difference between silk and poly-whatever when you know what to look for.)

I am so horny for silk. It is a travesty that I haven’t gotten to wear my silk costumes in years *dramatic sigh*

/costume and fabric nerd mode off/

Also, chapter 1 of that Rookanis Regency AU is almost done. I’ll see how far I can get ahead before the cover is finished 😉

[skydarcyedwards]

Raindrops on spider silk.

Sky Edwards

2022

Donnelly River

Canon EOS 60D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM

[astrangetorpedo]

exactlyyy that cologne show was something else entirely.

at the risk of sounding jobless and obsessive, pasting a compilation from tiktok down just to point out a very fleeting but serious moment… at the 1:35 minute mark…

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZIJnTNpWN/

jb’s elevator eyes…. she’s no better than a man

[figofswords]

wow I didn’t think reblogging that tea post and then seeing people’s tags would deal me such strong psychic damage. come over I can fix you I can find a tea you will like. “I don’t like tea” how can you say that as a blanket statement when there are so many vastly different kinds of tea. head in hands

[lutnistas]

Bartang River ( Pamir Mountains / Tajikistan )

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Furina Moodboard

Requested by: Nobody! <3

[m00nb04rd5]

could I have a mood board of Sea Urchin in his blade dancing skin from food fantasy?

Blade Dancing!Sea Urchin (Food Fantasy)

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption

Cornell researchers have developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another. Led by Larissa Shepherd, assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, in the College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the removal of dye and oil from water. Studies on several different forms of silk: fabrics, yarns, and fibers revealed that yarn unraveled from silk fabric, soaked up methylene blue (MB), a common textile dye, from water at a substantially higher rate than other forms of silk they tested. What's more, the silk yarn can be cleaned and reused. Shepherd's group found that the textile can withstand at least 10 cycles, with minimal loss of functionality.

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[dim20-stims]

"I believe in you. Spring Break!"

x x x - x 🩰 x - x x x

[kvetch19]

[tibli]

minecraft should let you turn your broken glass back into sand to be reused. because you can literally just do that in real life

[confusedgoldenflower]

My Atla headcannons/theories

•Alpacas are native to the land of the Southern Air Temple.

•The Water Tribe engagement necklaces are made from a form of nacre (because it’s more fun that way) from like a barnacle-clam or smthg.

And the ribbon isn’t imported silk from the Fire Nation (they’re based on Japan and why does Japan have silk? Bc the humidity. Fite me) or lotus silk from the Earth Kingdom (they totally took the FN’s way of mulberry silk making, excellerated via the colonies, but that’s a lotta land! And I’m fascinated by how many diff ways we can make fabric. Obv they also have the various forms of sheep too).

But something special and from around those respective areas.

So I present to you the ribbons being made from the northern yak-things and southern leopard-things, etc.

But if you really wanna show how devoted and serious and skilled you are?

Sea Silk!

Which I decree as having distribution around both regions via the oyster-clam or whatever it would be in this world. (In this case, it turns a deep, beautiful blue instead of gold—at least, that’s how the Tribespeople prepare it anyway.)

Also Moth Silk!

Same with the arctic wooly bear moths as northern wooly bear-moths and southern snow leopard-moths.

Hell! For the fuck of it, let’s throw in some more fiber making things like mollusk-coral or cat-(Greenland) shark “hair” or sea feathers/crinoids (yes, I’m keeping that the same bc they’re special bois).

I’m gonna have so much fun with this my fics. Holy shit. I can’t believe I haven’t seen more ppl try to look into this. I, for one, have always wondered.

…. And I’ve always wondered why the Tribespeople don’t have brown eyes. Like it’s cute that the usually waterbending ppl who live with glaciers have blue eyes, but don’t we all know that that HURTS like shit in the reflecting snow and ice? I don’t have blue eyes but man did my genes hate me so I know how it feels. Just saying….