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Guest - Aislinn
Dyestuff Citizen Science.
09 October 2026
This is a great project. I look forward to the results. Thanks for letting us know.
Guest - Aislinn
Time for...
09 October 2026
Looks delicious!
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Friday Links.
Friday, linktime...
Amica and Maria, two textile nerds (according to their own description) have started a new blog called Historical Textiles.
Gillian Polack is collecting recipes from SF fandom, and she wants yours too. The recipes will end up in a book - fandom deliciousness!
apc has a monograph about an excavation from York online, and it includes textile-related finds (among them a needle): Blue Bridge Lane & Fishergate House.
More research literature? Uni of Groningen has a publications database that might make you happy.
If you prefer something with more pictures, here's a collection of bizarre images from medieval manuscripts.
Sad things are happening too, unfortunately: The Tsock Tsarina has returned to her blog, but for the worst of all reasons - to announce that she has terminal cancer. I learned how to knit while following her instructions on how to make socks in "Tsocks 101", and her sock designs are something that always make me smile. Fuck cancer.
Amica and Maria, two textile nerds (according to their own description) have started a new blog called Historical Textiles.
Gillian Polack is collecting recipes from SF fandom, and she wants yours too. The recipes will end up in a book - fandom deliciousness!
apc has a monograph about an excavation from York online, and it includes textile-related finds (among them a needle): Blue Bridge Lane & Fishergate House.
More research literature? Uni of Groningen has a publications database that might make you happy.
If you prefer something with more pictures, here's a collection of bizarre images from medieval manuscripts.
Sad things are happening too, unfortunately: The Tsock Tsarina has returned to her blog, but for the worst of all reasons - to announce that she has terminal cancer. I learned how to knit while following her instructions on how to make socks in "Tsocks 101", and her sock designs are something that always make me smile. Fuck cancer.
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