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Tying up loose ends, so to speak: a finished bit of lace from a few weeks ago.
clementine von radics / stranger things 4x1 / my tears ricochet, taylor swift / miriam adeney / graceland too, phoebe bridgers / blue lily lily blue, maggie stiefvater / stranger things 4x4 / blood makes the blade holy, evan knoll / selected letters, martha gellhorn / ruin and rising, leigh bardugo / memory i, giorgos seferis / meditations in an emergency, cameron awkward-rich / right where you left me, taylor swift / dance with me, heidi cullinan / running up that hill (a deal with god), kate bush / stranger things 3x8 / nothing new, taylor swift ft. pheobe bridgers / the memory of a memory, katie maria / matilda, harry styles / stranger things 4x4 / selected letters, martha gellhorn / stranger things 3x8 / stranger things 3x1 / crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky / unknown / matilda, harry styles
The one bizarre thing to me about textiles is that warp-weighted weaving is at least 6500 years old, but our oldest knitted artifacts are only ~1000 years old, and crochet 200 years old. Even though you need less equipment to knit (two sticks) or crochet (one hook) compared to warp-weighted weaving (frame, loom weights, batting, heddles). Why the big gaps between these inventions? And why did each one appear and spread when it did?
some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:
Point Defiance Steps
Mates
Rising Tides
Vashon Steps
Tri-coloured scarf woven on a rigid heddle loom from yarn I spun myself. This took around three weeks of work start to finish, and I couldn’t be happier with the result :-)
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…
3322 square feet
Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …
And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …
Anyways …
Porcelain, thread, woven wheel stitch. The green wheel is so much better than the other two. Guess it took me three attempts to get the tension right for sewing on porcelain. This mask actually broke when I was sewing, and I glued it back together. It's a clean break/join but still visible and I'm starting to think I should have just left it broken.
Handspun Fairy Bubbles
♡ sparkly sweet handspun that I will custom spin for you ♡
Handspun Fairy Bubbles
♡ sparkly sweet handspun that I will custom spin for you ♡
Handspun Fairy Bubbles
♡ sparkly sweet handspun that I will custom spin for you ♡
okay but she’s soooo sparkly, like a mermaid tail fr
shop the yarn in my store ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ♥
Through this weekend only, alllll handspun yarn in my shop is 20% off! Proceeds from the sale are going to moving expenses and helping me pay rent while I look for employment. :3
okay but she’s soooo sparkly, like a mermaid tail fr
okay but she’s soooo sparkly, like a mermaid tail fr
shop the yarn in my store ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ♥
Through this weekend only, alllll handspun yarn in my shop is 20% off! Proceeds from the sale are going to moving expenses and helping me pay rent while I look for employment. :3
shop the yarn in my store ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ♥
Through this weekend only, alllll handspun yarn in my shop is 20% off! Proceeds from the sale are going to moving expenses and helping me pay rent while I look for employment. :3
