#repair culture

[calendulacraft]

Fast Fashion to Slow Fashion :: a DIY guide to up-cycling and mending clothing on a budget.

For those of us living on a small income, buying from sustainable fashion brands is often out of reach. I would like to point out that *buying new but ecological garments isn't the only way to cultivate a slow fashion wardrobe*. Here are a few options for transforming *upcycling* your clothing, thus making fast fashion into slow fashion:

Mend and repair :: patch hand-me-down sweaters, fix holes in leggins from target and other department stores. By giving items a longer life, and preventing unnecessary garbage, fast fashion items become slow fashion! Here are two tutorials I have written on how to mend a torn belt loop on jeans and patch leggings.

Up-cycle clothing that doesn't suit your style :: when preparing for a trip back home and wondering how to acquire some nicer clothing for the trip a friend of mine gifted me a big bag of clothes. Almost all of them were items that we could call "fast fashion" and nearly all also had stains or rips that needed mending. By fixing and adapting these items and then going on to wear them for several years longer, I am keeping them out of the cycle of buy then trash.

Tailor items that don't fit you :: Taking in clothing is quite simple and there are lots of tutorials on how to hem pants and skirts or take in a size or two. I recently made a tutorial on how to take out a skirt, or make a skirt bigger by adding panels.

At some point, we must face the fact that a t-shirt is totally worn out and cannot be used for clothing any longer. In such cases here are a couple of crafts to utilize the fabric and other items from the scrap pile:

Create a Quilt :: if you find yourself with a pile of beautiful & memory-filled scraps -- transform them into a quilt as I have done in this post.

Make Twine :: Longer scraps of fabric, especially those from stretch materials like leggings or jersey cotton t-shirts can be made into a thing rope also known as fabric twine. I wrote a tutorial on how to make twine out of fabric scraps.

<<Best of luck in all your crafting endeavors!>>

#upcycled fashion #slow fashion #fashion tutorials #mending #mending 101 #mending references #mending masterpost #cottagecrafts #upcycle #repair culture #low waste #zero waste #wasteless crafts

[tflohr]

Some planter repair on this pot I painted last year and my cat broke last month. Inspired by kintsugi.

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#art #diy #repair culture #repair #kintsugi

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed #to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other #and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against #antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive #(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god #and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal) #as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch #antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching #it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look'' #the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal #and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously?? #btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc

[nesyanast]

"In a spiritual context, tshuvah is about coming back to where we are supposed to be, returning to the person we know we’re capable of being—coming home, in humility and with intentionality, to behave as the person we’d like to believe we are."

On Repentance and Repair, Danya Ruttenberg

#jumblr #jewish #jews #judaism #frumblr #jewish culture #jewish holidays #danya Ruttenberg #rabbi #quotes #on repentance and repair #nesyapost

[give-grian-rights]

We'll never have dream smp again you'll never get to be a mcyt during the lockdown

Every waking moment of my being was dedicated to dream smp. I was never more disconnected from people and more intertwined with thousands of others.

I'll never be a teenage mcyt people blorbo post about and I'll never go back

But that's just me talking without my meds ...

#im now back on them but for an appointment skipped three days #fuck anyone whos an ex dsmp fan who acts like it was horrible. it wasnt. we'll never have that again #ive been in a hospital for three hours and can't stop this dsmp mental illness #objectively the pandemic was horrible for my mental and physical health in ways yet to be repaired #but it allowed for a time in space and internet culture that is now unreachable. it will never happen again #and maybe it shouldnt but god.... #mika-posts #dream smp #dsmp

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I realized (which was obvious to me subconsciously) is that... The family that vehemently didn't accept me when I first came out but now do accept me are still the same family that I am most unwilling to be open about things I feel protective over.

I remember that my dad reacted so poorly, not to my coming out, but to my transition specifically that my therapist was the one to ask if I wanted to put it on my file that I wanted nothing to ever be shared with him about my health after I broke down multiple times due to my anxiety that I would never transition. While there are and were protections for me, I was incredibly fearful at the time because I was a minor, and I was so worried that he would have prevented my transition that I couldn't have said for certain what (if any) lengths he would have gone to to prevent that.

He's grown a lot as a person, and made some commendable strides. But he didn't find out from me when I medically transitioned the second I turned eighteen, and I think that's among the things that truly made him realize the scope of the issue.

I'm not here to guilt trip parents, guardians, or other members responsible for the care of the children or teens or young adults in their care.... but this is a cautionary tale. You aren't saving the people in your care when you do this, you simply reinforce an idea that you will never care for them, never want them as they are, would rather them be shoved away.

When you give people reasons to be secretive, they will behave secretively. When you give people reasons to doubt their safety around you, they will become sneaky, defensive, and withdrawn. When you give people reasons to doubt that you value their life, they will believe that you don't care if they live or not.

#queer #lgbt #lgbtq #ally advice #transphobia #transphobia tw #i always feel the need to preface that i have a rebuilt relationship with my dad specifically... #...but that my experiences with them have served to me in many ways to illustrate... well... what NOT to do if you are in his situation #i do still grieve that my relationship with him looks very scarred and that it took a long time to get to where he is now #but i recognize that in many ways this is a product of the world and culture we live in and that he lived in #in a world he grew up gay was used as a slur. would i expect that trans people would be treated better? #and he was responsible for how he reacted but also... it's nuanced as to why he reacted so poorly #and i want people to AVOID being like he did if they EVER want a decent relationship with the other person #i want this to be a cautionary tale and that my ending is unique. not all of us are even ABLE to repair a relationship that was THAT broken #some of us die trying. some of us never get closure. some of us are in active danger because of those reactions #and that's the more common reality i have found. most other queer people have no-contact with families who pulled the shit my dad had... #...and that's - frankly - a good idea in 99.9% of cases. i will never judge someone for the way they go about dealing with that #i'm just emphasizing that i am unique in the sense that i was able to somewhat repair that

[kvroii-arts]

Delilah has been successfully repaired!

She was suffering from a particularly bad case of dry rot -- she's remarkably old in terms of her pelt, and even when I first mounted her in 2021 I could tell she was frail, but last night her body entirely broke down in a manner similar to the shattering of old silk taffeta.

I lined her carefully on the inside with overlapping patches of fabric to keep her held together, and she has made a full recovery.

#taxidermy fox #taxidermist #taxidermy #softmount taxidermy #softmount fox #dry rot #taxidermy art #handmade #artists on tumblr #sewing #sewists of tumblr #crafting #naturecore #vulture culture art #vulture culture #repairs #taxidermy repair #oddities #oddities and curiosities #dark cottagecore #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #fox skull #fox skulls #delilah

[hmtaxidermy]

Big guy all fixed and ready to go home!

For context: Customer’s mount fell off the wall and the skullcap holding the antlers broke in half and the glass eye scratched.

I had to make an incision between the antlers to access and temporarily remove the skullcap. It fixed up better than I hoped!

#mount repair #elk #taxidermy #vulture culture #taxidermist #cw animal death #cw dead animal #tw animal death #tw dead animal #repair job

[commsroom]

doug eiffel is a radio guy in every sense. eiffel still listens to music on the radio and he complains about what they play, but no matter how many times people tell him he can just listen to his own music instead, he wants to listen to the radio and complain about it, so he won’t stop. eiffel thinks it’s sacrilege when classic rock stations play anything more recent than the 80s.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #i know this is true i feel it in my heart #he's an analog man #and he loves a good radio show. or a bad radio show. whatever #i feel like people underestimate how nostalgia brained eiffel is tbh #he likes some newer stuff but it's mostly very mainstream #he's a pop culture guy but a pop culture guy of another era and his attachment to the technology associated with that era of pop culture #is unshakable #he likes stuff he can take apart and fix by himself with whatever's lying around. he made his own walkie talkies. etc #type of guy who still has his blockbuster card in his wallet #type of guy who watches movies on tv even though he has them on dvd #and he worked in surveillance there's noo way he trusts streamlined modern technology with 'smart' features or the equivalent #i was watching a video the other day about local radio/tv repair places that went out of business because nothing is built #to be repaired anymore and products are designed so they can only be repaired/replaced by the companies that made them #and i think eiffel would have a lot to say about that. and he would be right.

[saurons-pr-department]

Elven discourse over which is the pinicle of craftsmanship: creating beautiful pieces from scratch or maintaining/restoring items to their heyday condition because no one likes change, no sir

#i am once agaib watching the repair shop and thinking about how #craftsmen who could maintain items' beauty would be highly respected in elven culture #who needs magic rings when you can just hire a highly skilled craftsperson?

[kirnet]

I’ve read some lovecraft and enjoyed it and I understand the limitations of cosmic horror as a genre bc how do you convey something that’s incomprehensible to human minds to the person reading it, but so much of just jumps to ‘I read this book and now I’m CRAZY and DEAD and everyone else is also DEAD’ which it’s also hard to do a slow buildup into madness in a short story but. You know.

#the repairer of reputations was by far the best at this buildup but the rest were. fine. it’s all fine. #culturally significant obviously but not impactful to me. I’m happy with just engaging with things inspired by it a la td and malevolent #also just an older style of writing I just don’t totally gel with #how are you all enjoying Mina book club time. rate your experience below #ramblings #also I think this is something the southern reach trilogy did really well! in terms of buildup and creep factor without actually explaining #anything and leaving things vague

[calendulacraft]

:: Slow Fashion & Mending Kits ::

By repairing holes and fixing straps, a beloved item of clothing can last years longer than if left un-mended and save unnecessary waste from going to the landfills. Inspired by a desire to make clothing last longer, many crafters are getting into the art of mending and upcycling.

This Sewing Kit is for sewers on-the-go and includes all the tools for a well-rounded sewing kit like:

- 1 pair of trimming scissors

- 2 sturdy sewing needles

- 3 spools of thread

- 4 patches

- 8 pins, large & small

- a collection of fun & useful buttons

You can find this kit and many more on the Calendula Craft Etsy page.

((Many thanks to my sister, Jana of the 90's, for modeling her kit))

#diy #mending #slow fashion #witchy crafts #upcylcing #upcycled fashion #handmade #sewing #cottagecore #cottage crafts #fashion #repair culture

[answrs]

The Glamorous Taxidermy Process

now to wait 2 weeks while grooming with a toothbrush lol

#taxidermy #vulture culture #vultureculture #columbus oddities convention #dead animal #though it's like. already fully tanned and such but i'll tag in case #likely the last of the pics from the con (....maybe) so dw about more spamming your dash #i didnt photo a lot of the intermittent steps like repairing the holes and carving the headfoam and body potato and such #his neck broke off when i was halfway done sewing the back so hes got a big wire slammed thru his forehead to keep him upright :') #once he's fully dry i'll go in and paint the excess clay around the eyes and such #not gonna lie this being my first actual taxidermy mount I'm really happy with how it turned out! #(minor. uh. 'hiccup' nonwithstanding) #long post

[lethalhoopla]

always want more chance to have Casual Intimacy Moments with romances in bioware games,,,

#dragon age #dai #solas #inquisitor lavellan #they/them lavellan #solavellan #did a paint version of this. learned things. couldn't post XD #so i lined it and made just a quick warm vibe bc........... yes #tevrael lavellan is an absolute nerd/cultural/history/magic buff and always wants to learn more so #solas + lavellan post (and pre) intimacy doing research and studying and discussing all manner of things is SO canon heh #also i just like Magical Pipes so. shhhhhhhh. lavellan found some Ancient Relic Of Arlathan/Post Fall Elvhen Culture and repaired/remade it #spicy herbs shhhhhhh its fine just magical.... somethin.................

[leaveharmony]

Amazing how healing a big ancient slightly crushed hunk of plastic can be

A little acetone and a good scrubbing took care of the vast majority of the grunge. He’s CERTAINLY in better shape than the atrociously stained Leonardo, anyway. There is this:

Where I can only assume he was laying flat with something heavy on top of him for a few….decades…or wedged between things, maybe. Totally deformed one bit of his shell. I tried to sort of squish him back into place after a bit of blow dryer heating, but I think if I want to actually be able to shape him back into place I might need to level up to an actual heat gun. Not sure if that’s worth it, honestly, as I’m uncertain what else I might ever need a heat gun for.

I do however definitely have some faux black leather left from making Misty’s Shinsuke doll, so recreating his belt won’t be difficult at all.

My fingers fit into his hands. Maybe I can make a model magic bo staff? Wire core? I have to take it out to make the mushroom jewelry (unrelated) anyway.

On wednesday I saw him in the shop window (waiting for me), but the shop has odd hours, thursday-saturday. Made another attempt on thursday after physio, but they had closed early, maybe because the weather was atrocious. So it remained, on friday, so I did not try. Phoned first, today. The quoted price, with ‘wiggle room’ (I only suggested $5 off which doesn’t make me much of a haggler but did only put him a few cents over the price that in my head was past the limits of what I should allow for the sake of the inner child Looking at me and saying pllleeeeeeaaassseeeeee?)

Wash water is still running out of all his joints and I love him very much.

#No YOU’RE cradling a scuffed up piece of ancient pop culture like a swaddled baby and cooing at it #now if you'll excuse me I'm going to do heat gun repair research and possibly pattern a little trenchcoat #idk how to explain to my mother that I kind of PREFER that his shell is a bit crushed #because then I can attempt to correct it #and probably nobody else would so he would just sit there labelled Flawed #and more importantly if I cannot correct it then THAT IS OK and he is still beloved

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

About a month ago (I thought it was longer!) I posted some ficlets with the promise that a longer Lancelot Lives Alt Season 4 full fic was coming. It has been going slowly. Like, "less than 15k words since then" slow. I started alt Servant of Two Masters literally with Mercelot Week and they've just found out that he's trying to kill Arthur slow. And I thought, you know, I could post another sneak peek.

A few days ago, I made myself sad writing the first conversation between Lancelot and Merlin since the latter went missing (not that the scene itself comes off as all that sad, it is from Fomorroh!Merlin, but I thought of how sad Lancelot would've been and well). Yesterday, I made this fic into a comedy:

“It’s probably best that we get there first,” Gwen tried to demur.

“We think Merlin might have been enchanted to kill Arthur,” Gaius said.

Gwen made a sound like a mix between a boiling kettle and a cat whose tail had been stepped on, but Lancelot didn’t pay it any mind.

“What?” he yelped and didn’t wait for an actual answer before breaking into a run. 

Fortunately, while the physician’s chambers were on the top of a tower, isolated from the rest of the castle, they’d also been placed close to the Royal Chambers. He burst through the doors not a minute later, just in time to see Merlin pull an arrow out of a pillar. Thinking only of that weapon in his hand (the danger to Arthur’s life, to Merlin’s life if he was caught after the act, how it’d break his heart if he hurt Arthur or worse) and not the startled look on his face or the bewildered question from behind the privacy screen, Lancelot launched himself at him.

They went down in a tangle of limbs.

“What on earth— Lancelot?!” Arthur exclaimed, running over. “What is going on?!”

“Get off me!” Merlin struggled like a fish on land.

“I just… hadn’t seen him since he came back!” Lancelot said, barely dodging an elbow to the face. “I’m so happy he’s alive!” he insisted, finally managing to wrap his arms around his torso to immobilize him.

“What are you talking about? We just saw each other in the Armoury!” It was a good thing Merlin had dropped the arrow when they fell, because Lancelot was pretty sure he’d have been stabbed by now otherwise. 

“I think you imagined that.” Lancelot was half trying to pin Merlin’s legs under his own, half trying to avoid a kick to any sensitive spot when Gwen arrived at the door, out of breath.

“Arthur, they need you at the Throne Room,” she gasped out. “You have to go.”

“Why would I ever torture myself by imagining more conversations with you? The ones I have to suffer through in reality are more than enough for any sane being,” Merlin said, still wriggling.

Lancelot shot Arthur a wide beam. “He’s so funny.”

Merlin took that moment of distraction to twist suddenly, getting his legs under himself. He might have gotten enough leverage to shake Lancelot off and stand up if Gwen hadn’t jumped on him as well.

“You too?!” Arthur demanded, arms spread. “You saw him this morning!”

“I missed him so much,” she explained, holding on for dear life.

Gaius appeared at the door and Arthur turned to him.

“Let me guess.” Arthur gestured wildly. “Do you want to drop to my floor?”

“No, sire,” Gaius answered, eyes narrowed. “Do you?”

Arthur made a strangled noise that choked itself into a laugh.

“Back to normal, then,” he sighed. He walked across the room, past the wrestling figures in the floor that became a lot more active when Merlin saw Arthur come within reach, and grabbed his ceremonial sword. “I better get going. You” —he waved a hand— “have fun.”

“Wait,” Merlin shouted after him. “Don’t you need me to—?”

Arthur slammed the door behind himself pointedly.

#Merlin BBC #alt season 4 #lancelot lives au #WLWAAOD #(that's When Love Was An Act Of Defiance btw) #Merlin #Lancelot #Mercelot #this is not the first time this has happened #the funny 'sneak around the camp base to get the triskelion and climb to the tower of ashkanar' was directly preceded by a heavy convo abou #dragonlord culture and how much had been lost and destroyed beyond repair #Arthur Pendragon #Gwen #guinevere pendragon