clothing
- Mending jeans with Sashiko guidetamayandme.com Sashiko - '刺し子’
Step-by-step explanations how to fix a garment using Sashiko and Japanese techniques. This blog features two Sashiko techniques (one explained and one in a step-by-step video)
>Step-by-step explanations how to fix a garment using Sashiko and Japanese techniques. This blog features two Sashiko techniques (one explained and one in a step-by-step video)
- Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatchwww.ecowatch.com Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die - EcoWatch
Deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile, new dunes are forming — not of sand, but of last year's unsold clothing from around the world. Piled high atop the previous year's fast fashion casualties and unpurchased lines of clothes, the garments are usually filled with toxins and dyes and do not biodegrade...
- Staying cool in Mississippi
I work mostly outside for my job in construction. I've been using polyester sun hoodies for a few years now and they are mostly good. They do a good job of letting air move across my skin without letting me get sunburned. However I don't like how quickly they start having baked in stink from sweat and I've been looking into different materials.
My goal with my next purchase
- Better for the environment
- Less maintenance with cleaning
- More efficient
I think bamboo or linen might be my next step in my fabric journey based on my recent research but I'm looking for any assistance from someone with more experience in hot/humid climates.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
- Solarpunk Now! Episode 13 – Fashioning the Future: Why Accessible Fashion Matterswww.solarpunkcast.net Episode 13 – Fashioning the Future: Why Accessible Fashion Matters, Solarpunk Now!
Description: AJ is a fashion designer who focuses on making accessible fashion: clothing for diverse bodies, abilities, and genders.
AJ is a fashion designer who focuses on making accessible fashion: clothing for diverse bodies, abilities, and genders. His online store–Pocketbean Crafts–sells magical and accessible fashion. He also has a nonprofit, Queering the Spotlight, which provides accessible fashion opportunities for artists and models.
Solarpunk Now! Podcast can be followed on Mastodon at @solarpunkcast@spore.social
- Reconstructing History Sewing Patternsreconstructinghistory.com Reconstructing History Sewing Patterns
Reconstructing History sells multi-sized and Made to Measure sewing patterns for historical clothing, vintage dress, Renaissance costume, medieval cotehardies, etc.
- A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itselfwww.sciencenews.org A vegan leather made of dormant fungi can repair itself
Researchers developed a leather alternative made from dormant fungus that can be reanimated and then regrow when damaged.
- Wasteless Crafts Blog
this (tumblr) blog is really inspiring to me, has loads of tips for clothing repair, sewing, knitting, crafting on the cheap https://wastelesscrafts.tumblr.com/
