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hand sewing and wondering what an anarchist solarpunk/ #TrashMagic textile practice would look like. clearly lots of refashioning, mending, retrofitting, but what else? a return to local/climate-based textiles, silhouettes, and colors?
@nonmodernist @trashrobot finds pants on the ground, washes them, and sews “FREE PANTS” onto them with colorful block letter felt patches, and that seems like a pretty rad #trashmagic practice. Personally, I like to grow a bunch of common lambsquarters and I wonder if they could have any textile use, they have real fibrous stems, and they dry out to be real woody. I don’t know much about textile production though lol, may only be good for light stick crafts and basket weaving type stuff. At some point I plan to try to make a gardening hat with strips of the stems.
@Stoneshins @trashrobot I loved the pants project!
I imagine there are tons of plants that could be processed to make bast textiles, like in this article: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-02-21/native-plants-for-textiles-3-bast-fibers-to-know-beyond-hemp-and-flax/