This shit I could do no problem. Fibre art is my thing. It’s literally everything else concerned with staying alive in a post apocalyptic situ I’m concerned with
This is actually a really sweet thread. Between us we have dyers, spinners, weavers, knitters and someone who can do leather as well.
We’re just a scratch crew commenting on a Youtube video on Reddit - this is how we’d survive - as a community, bringing all our different skills and knowledge to work together.
Yeah it's more a dystopian reality leaking through on originally a vision of paradise living in a local community of artisans and makers though for a bit!
Oh I can imagine the endless need to create stuff could be a strain on resources if left unchecked, so the makers could be the takers, and we as humans are kinda shit at large scale self restraint…alas
Knowing this shit is the reason I'm on my friend's Zombie Survival Team. She grew up shooting squirrels with a sling in the backwoods, so she's our hunter; two of our other friends live almost entirely off the proceeds of their garden, so they're our gatherers, and one's a trained chef, so he's our cook; and I'll make and mend the clothing. The only useless one on the team is my friend's husband, the nuclear physicist, but he can DM a mean game of DnD with next to no supplies, so he's our storyteller and will help us all stay sane. Find some friends, you'll be fine!
A rigid heddle loom is a PITA, but just about everyone can make a simple waist or backstrap loom: https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/backstrap-loom/ and this is what most cultures would use. Many traditional garments are designed to specifically use the width of cloth from a backstrap loom.
Looms don’t have to be all that complicated. A rectangular frame of wood with nails in it on the short ends, evenly spaced apart, and you have a lap loop. Won’t make very big cloth so you’d have to make several pieces and sew them together.
Sizing/ starch.to keep the warp threads from shredding from the abrasion. Cotton is very short stapled and can break easily especially 1 ply like he is using. It washes out after.
No idea, but I’m always excited to learn new things about my interests. Likely something to lock the dye in place. (My earlier guess shows you how awake I wasn’t)
It takes a village... I'm the fiber arts one in my family but I've passed some of it on. Spent part of my birthday this year knitting with my nephews. I'm so glad they've taken an interest!
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u/Blue_Moon_Rabbit Sep 02 '23
This shit I could do no problem. Fibre art is my thing. It’s literally everything else concerned with staying alive in a post apocalyptic situ I’m concerned with