I feel like something that doesnt get talked about enough is how fast fashion is coming to hobbies as well. Sure, you can sew, knit, and crochet something better than youd buy in store, but good luck finding quality materials
Want a fabric that doesnt fray from being gently caressed? Want yarn thats not 100% plastic and splits if you touch it wrong? Good luck finding that if you dont have a genuinely good crafts store near you.
Go on any thread where people are trying to figure out where to buy fabric. 50% of it is people saying big stores are servicable, online stores work, or the like, and the other 50% are talking about how bad the quality is or how the quality of a website dropped because it was bought out
Were running into a problem where fast fashiob is so integrated into society that even the ability to make your own, comfortable and long lasting, clothes is being threatened by capitalism
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Sailor's Valentine, unknown origin, 19th century
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Firebird. Decorative lacquer panel by V. Polyanina (Kholui art painting, USSR 1980s).
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Palekh painting on a small box with illustration of "Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" tale.
Palekh miniature is a Russian folk handicraft of a miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mâché (including the creation of small boxes, cigarette cases, and powder cases).
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I have been dabbling in macrame for a change.
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oops. looks like this brushbug found itself caught in a good book.
now it's squashed flat.
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A fish shaped pie crimper, scrimshawed by a sailor, made of whale bone, mid 19th century
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Wooden Khokhloma bowl and spoon (Russia)
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these card pouches and zipper pulls are made out of salmon leather! the skins were acquired from a sushi shop and i tanned them in a super-concentrated tea tanning solution.
the card pouches are sewn with hemp thread as a nod to hemp fishing nets.
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