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Material: 45000 year old Egyptian yeast bread. Incredible how we can just reach through history like that.

Scientist bakes sourdough bread with yeast derived from 4500 year old Egyptian pottery

i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......

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Material: giant fruits & veggies. Or is OP just very small? We may never know

just got back into gardening so i’ve forgotten. are basil leaves supposed to be this big

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Hey out of curiousity, where are you? From what I can tell you're not on earth. . . or are you?

Was wondering when someone would ask! You're right, we aren't on Earth. Uncrafting's shop is located on Renegade Projects Asteroid Mini-Station TCO79. Bit of a dump to be honest, but there's job security in that we're how most folks around here get hold of anything good.

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Material: 100,000 tons of high quality copper. Trust me dude

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Material: crystals of space and time

Super specimen of Fluorite from Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo Region, Karibib District, Namibia.

Photo by: Mined over Meta

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Wool

Since at least 40000 B.C., people have been keeping sheep and making good use of their wool. Soft, warm and versatile, wool readily absorbs moisture and is harder to light ablaze than synthetic fibers, making it ideal not only for sweaters and blankets, but also suits, upholstery, insulation and even- traditionally- baby diapers.

while big industrial machines are used in commercial wool manufacture (as with everything on a large industrial scale) the traditional methods still have their following centuries later. Wool is shorn from the sheep or brushed in shedding from another wool animal (more on those later) producing thick mats of fleece which must be then be washed and carded, a process of pulling the fleece between fine-toothed brushes to loosen and soften them. This freshly fine fiber is then spun using a wheel or drop spindle, producing the yarn we all know and love.

of course, you needn't worry about the process harming the animals- a good farmer takes good care of their sheep, making sure not to harm them and providing a much needed cooldown for the otherwise-overheating wooly beast.

In the event that nicks do occur during shearing, a waxy substance called lanolin is produced by the sheep's skin, which quickly soothes and heals those cuts. Lanolin can also be saved from the washing of wool, and finds many practical applications such as lubricants, shoe polish and skincare treatments.

wool is also sometimes felted rather than spun, producing a beautiful plush fabric that's perfect for warm blankets and adorably fuzzy art!

as I mentioned earlier, it isn't just sheep that produce a usable wool. There are plenty of types, such as camelhair, alpaca, angora from goats and rabbits, and qiviut from muskoxen.

there's even the extinct Salish Wool Dog, a breed once kept by the Salish people of what is now Washington and British Columbia to produce a thick, goatlike wool. Yarn and felt can be made from long-haired dog fur today as well of course, but it's more of a novelty.

The rarest and most expensive wool still collected today is that of the vicuña, a South American camelid which must be caught wild every three years and shorn for their extremely fine and miniscule amount of wool. The fiber is incredibly soft, beautiful, and cannot be dyed, used by royalty in the Incan Empire. To this day, the vicuña is the national animal of Peru.

That's all for now! Thank you for allowing me to spin this little yarn for you today. Hope you're all warm and comfy as can be, and I'll see you next time!

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Spin this wheel of different solid materials. Your house is now made of that.

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Silk

silk has been prized for centuries. Originating in China, the first silks were made from wild-collected moth cocoons, which needed to be pasted together to form a fabric as their short, torn fibers and mineral coating prevented the proper spinning of thread. Eventually though, cultivated farms of larvae such as the Bombyx Mori or Domestic Silk Moth were created.

because a proper silk thread cannot allow for tearing of the cocoon, pupating silkworms are killed by boiling and their fibers carefully unwound by hand. the dead larvae aren't always wasted though, as many will be eaten later.

the resulting fabric is truly stunning, with a signature sheen caused by the prismlike structure of the fiber proteins. This beauty, along with the at times difficult nature of its production, has led silk to be widely considered a sign of luxury and status, even to this day.

it also lends itself quite well to some absolutely marvelous embroidery and pattern work, such as this Japanese kimono from 1860, this 18th century Persian rug, or this fantastic example of double-sided embroidery, where two weavers make a matching simultaneous pattern on either side of the cloth.

I also have to appreciate this Quran, made in sheer black silk and hand-painted gold by Azerbaijani artist Tunzala Mamazadeh.

in the 1940s, following WWII many dresses were made from the reused silk of soldier's parachutes, such as this beautiful wedding gown.

This gown, however, is made from an entirely different material. It's not just moths making silk of course! We've all seen a spiderweb before, in real life or pictures. Spider silk, secreted from the spinneret glands in the abdomen, is much harder to obtain as it's pulled bit by bit straight from the spider's themselves. With time and effort though, a piece like this golden orb weaver dress can be made. The dress took 5 years, millions of spiders, and cost almost $40,000.

spider silk is incredibly strong, with a tensile strength five times stronger than steel when compacted into cables and bundles. This has lead to it being used in high-capacity ropes and a material known as dragon silk, which uses silkworm-spider hybrids to made a form of ballistic armor.

on the gentler side, cobwebs were once used in the Tyrolean Alps of 16th century Italy as a delicate canvas for tiny paintings.

moving back to the moths, I'd be remiss to not include Fairy Feather silk, the world's thinnest with threads about 1/6 the diameter of a human hair.

lastly, I'll take this opportunity to showcase two silk-adjacent fabrics: Sea silk and Lotus silk. The first is made from the anchoring threads of the Pinna Nobilis or Noble Pen shell, and nowadays is only woven by a handful of artisans on the island of Sant'Antioco in Italy.

Lotus silk, as the name would suggest, is made from the thin strands of fiber that can be extracted from broken lotus stems. Each plant only produces a handful of threads, which must be unwound by hand, so the resulting fiber is very rare and expensive, with a single scarf costing $200.

Well I suppose that's a long enough thread for one day. I'll spin you a fresh tale tomorrow, but for now this is Uncraft signing off. See you next time!

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Material: pickled wild onions. found veggies are always the tastiest kind.

Pickled Wild Onion Bulbs

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Happy Valentine's Day my lovelies! I hope you're spending however is most fun for you- with lovers, with friends, by yourself- it doesn't matter. But while you're enjoying the flirtatious festivities, why not take a look at our Valentine's selection!

to start off with, since I know folks will ask- for ethical reasons, we don't sell any potions for making others fall in love with you. We do, however, have self-love potions aplenty for whoever might need them. Be sure to give yourself care and love today as well my friends- you're all wonderful and deserve the world!

after you're done treating yourself, you may want to find something nice for your Special Someone (or Someones. We don't judge here.) And what better gifts than a dozen roses or our finest pink diamonds!

you may want a fancy dinner, in which case we can provide you with an exotic experience such as these lion meat steaks, paired with golden champagne or a jasmine rose gin.

For dessert, indulge in some delicate white strawberries, a natural pink chocolate (made so by secret methods of cocoa breeding) or that classic staple of the Avid Spring Moon Festival and its sweethearts- The Chakcha Fruit. Known alternatively as Moonberries or Lover's Tears, these sweet and juicy Oursan fruits are meant to be split and shared with those you love in a remarkably romantic little gesture.

moving back to the non-food side, many of our customers like to construct their own outfits just for an occasion like this. I can't blame them- a special time calls for an extra-special thing to wear, like these beautiful pink silks.

or some makeup and perfume- 99% guaranteed to catch the eyes, noses and hearts of whoever you walk by!

looking for a bit of playful fun? We have a supply of diluted ballast shipped straight from the Mystery Flesh Pit herself. While the stuff that we sell is rated for casual consumption, we still advise that you use it responsibly.

When things do take a turn for the spicy, we've got you covered there too, with lubes rated for every species and a discount bundle of our special Uncraft Post-Valentine's Recovery Kit.

lastly, going back to the SFW side we have a collection of papers, glitters and little snacks for making some lovely Valentines for your Valentine.

However you choose to spend today, we're all glad that you chose to spend at least some of it with us. We'll see you next time!

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Material: frozen onions. Could probably be doing this with a lot of your flavoring ingredients, which is very useful if you're like me and have no energy for fancy cooking

i need you to be aware that you can make a giant batch of caramelized onions to keep in the freezer and defrost at will. that is legal and they can't stop you. they can't take this from you

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Material: Baleen for basket weaving. Honestly didn't know you could do that, but thinking about it it does make sense. Neat!

found out about inupiaq baleen baskets today. i really like them! a lot of them remind me of animals popping their head out of the water

Nicholas Makalik, Barrow, Alaska, 1963

Coiled Baleen Basket by Abe Simmonds Barrow, Alaska, 1954

by Andrew Oenga, 1981.

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FLESH

TW organs & eyeballs & such

(Also because he begged for it, Dale is introducing this one)

Mornin' folks, my name is Daley Dubble, and I'm here to show off our finest selection of bio-organical luxuries. Got all the finest fixins' that money can buy here y'all, don't let anyone tell ya different!

There's plenty o' innards and limbs and the like from every source you could name- sheep, pig, rhino, jersey devil, you name it!

We've got some ghost hearts- not real ghost mind, we don't quite have the certifications for that. These are real donated human hearts, all scrubbed up nice to let a fresh batch of cells grow on 'em and reduce the likelihood of organ rejection.

Speakin' of humans, there's eyes aplenty, and those big vat-grown computer brains for some supercomputin'!

Lookin' for somethin' a little more...exotic for your builds? We got that too, with stuff like venom glands, ink sacs, and them fancy chromatophores of a squid body. Awful pretty, those...

...Anyway, what was I sayin'?

Oh right, the meat! Well, we got some prefabs, assorted parts & modelin' flesh all fresh & ready for whatever you're plannin'- industry standard to have all that in a parts shop, and I'm nothin' if not a man of my profession.

Course there's also the stem cells for more precise modification- regressed adult cells, before I hear any of y'all whinin' about "fetal harvest" and what not.

And moving back to the fully grown surgical matters, we got a plentiful supply of the finest upgrades! Need more thinkin' room? Bionic lungs? Knife arms? We got em!

Outside the body, there's that staple of every good modern machine- the meat-techs. Tell ya what, there's nothin' quite like a biomachine for efficient and comfortable work. Hard to go back to anythin' else after you've met one of these.

Reckon that's all for now! Anythin' you buy in house or have shipped will come wrapped up real nice in a stasis container, so don't you worry 'bout how fresh it'll be. We pride ourselves on quality after all- that's the Uncraft guarantee!

See y'all next time!

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Material: Roman's Eggs. Pulsantes Delectamenti!

I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but I always assumed that the Ancient Romans were mammals

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Material: The All-Medicine, which must be consumed in salt lick form to be effective

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Material: potato and blood bricks. I guess regular old concrete was too heavy to bring up here?

why are these the options they tested

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Oh yea I have no reason to doubt it would, I'm just not too familiar with the science behind it. But there you go folks, we have at least one secondhand account- this stuff works!

Pearl

beautiful, beautiful pearls. made from calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite and calcite in crystal form) they are made by shelled mollusks as a response to irritants within the body.

Any shelled mollusk is capable of creating them, it's not just clams! Like take this beautiful melo melo pearl, made by the Indian Volute or Bailer Shell snail. They are extremely rare and expensive, selling for $20,000 for just one.

If you wanna see the biggest pearl ever found, look no further than this 61 lb. monstrosity valued at 100 million dollars!

Remember how I mentioned that pearls are formed to cover and soothe foreign irritants in the shell? Well that normally comes from regular old sand, but it can also be other things, like uhh... live fish mayhaps?

it's even intentionally cultivated sometimes, as with these buddha-shaped pearls made by placing tiny metal figurine against a pearl oyster's soft tissues

While mostly used for jewelry, pearl powder is also found in some skincare products, as well as being a traditional Chinese medicine ingredient, used to treat convulsions and skin diseases. I don't really know how effective the first medicinal claim is, but from what I hear, the antioxidant properties work great!

lastly of course, there's honorary mention of Dragon Pearls, which contrary to popular myth are not technically real pearls, but bezoars typically formed from the bones and gastroliths in a dragon's stomach. Believed to have lucky properties, their over-collection has threatened native dragon populations to the point that sales of them are now banned in most countries. We here at Uncraft hold a firm belief in that rule too, so don't go asking for any of those!

well, that's all my pearls of wisdom for today! We'll see you tomorrow!