Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I just finished reading The Romance of French Weaving which covers the history of French textiles from the early Gauls to the early nineteenth century. I learned quite a bit about the origin and etymology of fiber terms in general from it.

Next on the list is The Valkyries' Loom, which covers Scandinavian weaving history of the Norse people.

I'm enjoying reading about the weaving histories of specific cultures. Are there any others that folks recommend? #weaving #history

@faziarizvi ooooh neat what is this?

@hackingbutlegal This was one of the benefits of the Final credit card back when I worked there and they existed. You could assign companies unique virtual credit cards you could disable at any time. Even though Final is defunct, privacy.com offers similar functionality today based on debit instead of credit.

@firdarrig In particular this is a failure relatively unique to the US. The rest of Western civilization has figured out a way to manage health care that, while also imperfect, is still far ahead of us.

The ayes have it! Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I sewed a label on my new scarf.

@simonegiertz Welcome!

@FizzyDaisies Thank you! I started out a year ago with a 32" Kromski rigid heddle loom and around two months later found a free floor loom on Craigslist.

I recommend a rigid heddle loom to try out the hobby before investing in something bigger. There are a lot of books and large community around rigid heddle weaving and with 3 heddles you have the equivalent of a 4-harness floor loom.

I recently ordered a small package of fabric labels so I could add a simple "Handwoven by Kyle Rankin" label on things I made for others (you can see an example on the wider scarf at the top of this thread).

I'm torn whether I should add the label to something I've made for myself. I mean I already know it was handwoven by me, but perhaps it would be good to add it for posterity decades from now?

Those of you who label your projects, do you label projects you make only for yourself? #weaving

@cafechatnoir Thank you!

@rmordecai Thank you!

@Kymberly I like the way you combined the vertical and horizontal twill stripes.

I finished my scarf! I had previously made a scarf as a gift that I liked so much that I decided to make a narrower men's version for myself. I've attached pictures of both for comparison.

This weave was pretty loose to get the pattern I wanted. As a result I had to be very careful with it off the loom, and also fix a few picks that were out of place.

I ended up washing this in hot water and agitating it quite a bit, because I wanted it to full and shrink a bit into its final form. #weaving

@whack So very frustrating :( I'm sorry.

@shawnp0wers Basically I set 0, 10, 20, and 30C as mental guideposts with their relative Fahrenheit equivalents and use them as reference points for readings between the posts.

@shawnp0wers That is exactly why I set my weather app to Celsius. I'm slowly (I've been doing this for over a year) developing an intuitive sense for it. I still don't think in Celsius, but I'm having to switch back to Fahrenheit to understand temperatures less.

@shawnp0wers Lately I've been trying to immerse myself in metric (have weather reports default to it, use it for measurements/temps when brewing beer) so that I can develop a better intuitive sense of it.

Many of my coworkers are not in the US so I try to share measurements in metric when chatting with them to be considerate.

My son is currently learning fraction math in school and I realized the primary practical use for it is dealing with silly Imperial measurements.