#weaving with a string heddle tied out of clove hitches and a waistband loom. #textile #bushcraft #scouting
on 02024-11-07OpenKnit is an open-source knitting machine by Gerald Rubio, who then went on to found Kniterate, but then stopped working on OpenKnit #knitting #textile #manufacturing
on 02016-06-29OpenKnit is an open-source #knitting machine by Gerald Rubio #textile #manufacturing
on 02016-06-29This guy did some #science with some different sail #textile materials and found that #Tenara was the only one that wasn’t badly degraded by a couple of months of humidity and UV. #materials
on 02016-06-28"Tenara" is an architectural #textile woven of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE, teflon) fibers, with a lifetime of 25 years or so in the sun. #architecture #materials
on 02016-06-28#Basalt rebar #materials; also basalt fiber twine, basalt chopped fibers, and basalt fiber #textile fabric. “89% lighter” than steel. “naturally resistant to alkali, rust and acids.”
on 02016-06-26