Amazing #embroidery #video doing kintsugi on a hole. #fiber-arts
on 02026-08-11#video on difficulties of #manufacturing in “America” (but he’s so provincial he means the #USA). Specifically a knit sweater, made by “our knitting partners”, who blamed the yarn spinners, who furiously blamed the knitters, but were wrong. So he bought yarn from overseas and asked NCSU’s Wilson College of Textiles for help, but still doesn’t know enough to explain in the video what was wrong with the yarn. This was pretty boring but would be interesting if he knew something about #fiber-arts.
on 02026-05-19#Xyla-Foxlin #manufacturing a wooden dress for the Met Gala in 150 hours. #fiber-arts #toread #video
on 02026-05-17#video comparing four #crochet tapestry styles. #fiber-arts
on 02026-01-03another yarn #hoarding #tutorial #video #toread #fiber-arts
on 02026-01-03#Engineering-Knits #video on #3D-printing a circular sock machine (CSM) for automated #knitting. #fiber-arts #toread
on 02026-01-03#video by the rather formidable #Engineering-Knits claiming that for US$8 at the thrift store you can find silk sweaters, cashmere sweaters, and wool sweaters to unravel for #fiber-arts. But for some reason the one she’s unraveling is 25% acrylic. Has the very important tip that moth-proofing is a must-do #1 priority; she prefers baking her sweaters in the oven at 75° for 40 minutes, but puts her plastic sweaters in the freezer for three days to kill the moth eggs. Repeats the tip about looking for chain-stitched seams holding together finished knit edges. Runs into alternating rows knit with two different yarns, so the sleeve (for example) becomes two equal-length balls of yarn, but two different yarns. She prefers washing her yarn after unraveling the garments rather than before. She demonstrates her motor-driven unraveling machine, her manual ball winder, and a machine she uses for plying the yarn up into a thicker gauge multi-ply yarn. #hoarding
on 02026-01-03#video on #hoarding thrift-store sweaters for yarn for knitting or #crochet; she recommends looking for finished edges of knitting at the seams, if there are seams, rather than cut edges sewn together with a serger. She washed the garments before unraveling them; this caused her roving-yarn H&M sweater to pill up, which caused it to snag a lot when she was unraveling it onto her yarn winder. She got a pretty staggering amount of yarn actually, 400+ “yards” from the US$5.75 H&M sweater, about 25% of the cost of new yarn, while the Style & Co. sweater gave her 2400 “yards” of very fine yarn for the same Goodwill price, one tenth the cost of new yarn. But she spent 14½ hours buying, seam-ripping, and unraveling. I feel like you could unravel the sweater panels while you were knitting or crocheting something new from them. #fiber-arts
on 02026-01-03#introduction #tutorial #video for tapestry #crochet, making an 18×18 mushroom on a green background. #fiber-arts
on 02026-01-03#video about #primitive-technology #bushcraft which claims to be “knitting” a bamboo fan, but it’s actually weaving, from flat bamboo strips. Still #fiber-arts?
on 02026-01-03