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I present this year’s halloween project! This was deeply clearanced because of damage. I wasn’t big into the base but really wanted a halloween bowl stand and looked too last minute so this is what I gotBeforeIn progressAfter!It is now a witchy whimsical piece!

A new fabric pattern from HSuits Productions! A beautiful damask inspired by the Queen of the Underworld and the Goddess of Spring, Persephone!
https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/hsuits?sort=new
https://www.redbubble.com/people/HSuits/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent

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since microplastics have now been found in plACENTAS allow me to reiterate: 

faux fur is plastic

pleather literally has plastic in the name

synthetic wool is plastic

stop implying that plastic is good for anything.

“Vegan” fabrics? Yeah that shit is just plastic rebranded

not supporting the fur industry - but remember, vintage furs from thrift stores do not contribute to killing animals and are actually better for the environment than faux fur.

You can also buy fur new if you want. That is not a crime unless you are buying endangered animal furs. It’s also not really worse for the environment or the animals than buying regular meat or eggs from the grocery store, because all those animals are factory farmed, whether for fur, meat, or eggs. Factory farming isn’t solely a problem with fur, and anyway if you want to stop it then you’re better off calling or writing your politicians and getting involved with the larger movement that is trying to end big agra monopolies than only shopping at ‘pure’ retailers. You can’t change the world with your pocketbook, that’s a lie capitalism fed us.

The best furs to buy for warmth are coyote and raccoon, anyway, not mink and such. Sheepskin is also good. Stuff like mink, ermine, and sable aren’t actually very useful in terms of keeping you warm. Vintage bear and beaver are also pretty warm. Rabbit is useless, it sheds and goes bare quickly and isn’t very warm at all. Soft though.

Wool is the only fibre in the world that keeps you warm even when the wool is wet, and silk is among the best baselayers for warmth. Linen is the coolest fibre in the world, better than cotton, has been used for centuries and is a lot less costly in effort and water to produce–cotton is only cheaper artificially.

Down is the warmest and most breathable stuffing for blankets and pillows and it lasts a really long time. Cotton or wool stuffing is available also, but it doesn’t get the loft that down does, nor is it as warm (cotton isn’t warm at all). Remember that stuffing is also made of plastic!

Leather is great stuff, if you take care of it properly. It needs regular care and maintaining, but it will last a really long time if you do, and just get softer and softer over the years. And yes, you can clean it! You use something called saddle soap to clean it with. Patent leather has a plastic coating and may not even be leather these days, unfortunately. Deerskin is very nice, very soft but not very warm.

There’s a movement I first heard about in the historical costuming community, from Pinsent Tailoring: Slow Fashion. It’s a response to fast fashion, and the goals are to have a wardrobe that is more about longevity and quality of the clothing, and also about the clothing being made so that in a hundred years, all that would be left are the metal/horn/bone/shell/wood buttons. It’s very hard to do that with modern shoe soles, but if the heel or insole of your shoe is the only plastic you leave, you’re still doing better than an outfit from Target or something. Making your own clothes is actually not extremely difficult, you can start with extremely simple things, including the Bisexual Shirt (poet shirt), a pair of comfy pajama-style pants, and so on.

Make friends with your local vultures, costume historians, and leatherworkers (which are all, sometimes, also cosplayers)! They’re going to have oodles of resources for where to find natural materials.

Also, support Indigenous businesses!

It was always friggin weird to me that real fur became so controversial and socially offensive among people who still eat meat, like PETA activism actually successfully changed our entire culture and tricked people into thinking that wearing an animal’s skin is Exceptionally Wrong, except I guess cow leather because that’s not from like, a fox, which is like, a dog, and therefore special or something

ALSO

I’m gonna say this as a pro-real-leather person:

The way modern leather is mass-produced involves toxic chemicals and is not great for the planet. At all.

“But if our choices are plastic or terrible chemicals, then what?”

Then you can help people and the planet at the same time, because….

……THERE ARE MANY NATIVE AMERICAN SHOPS ON THE INTERNET THAT SELL TRADITIONALLY-TANNED LEATHER.

It will cost more. But it will also last much longer. I met a dude recently wearing a falling-apart leather jacket. He said he figured he’d have to replace it in the next year or two. Kinderlach, HE BOUGHT IT BEFORE I WAS BORN. I’M THIRTY-TWO. IT LASTED HIM ALMOST FORTY YEARS.

Please consider purchasing from Native-owned traditional leather shops. They would love your business and you will get high-quality, low-impact goods.

Does anyone have a list they could drop of good places to buy leather, skins, furs, and wool from?

To start with if it’s based in the US iguana, feral pig, or python is good no matter what. Those are invasive species that should be eaten and used however possible. I would also recommend looking for places that are as local as possible as you can help neighbors, prevent the byproducts of shipping long distance, and it’s easier to check the actual processes that they use. 

 Note: A lot of these things are expensive, as is the nature of many animal products.

https://www.thetallis.com/collections/all-products Furs

https://www.lochcarron.co.uk Wool

https://www.thehonestconsumer.com/blog/ethical-leather-brands Leather

just reblogging to add the Shave Em to Save Em campaign to this list. Lots of small rancher vendors on there selling skins, fleeces, and even bones directly to the public.

There is a long history on this.

Two ways to tell the origin of medieval books are: What wood are the boards made of and what leather is it covered in? It is very region-specific.

Leather can also be good for durable cosplay armor! It can be painted with acrylic added to a fabric medium, including metallics. Eva foam and worbla are both plastic and do not hold up to very many wears. Cowhide comes in multiple thicknesses and large sizes and can be wet formed to the shape you need, and it is already a byproduct of farming so it ensures no part of the animal you are already eating will go to waste.

I actually have been remaking my ahsoka siege of mandalore armor in leather because the original fell apart after one wear in the hot california sun at disneyland.

New project! I did a slight modification to my Apprentice Damask (now up on spoonflower) specifically for this purse. I ordered it on a cotton twill and paired it up with a zebra print suede that I hand dyed blue to match Ahsokas montrals and lekku! The interior is a navy blue faux suede. This was all hand stitched and matched with gunmetal hardware, including custom zipper pulls for the exterior and interior pockets. Finally it was treated with a weather conditioning spray. I have materials to make additional purses so tell me what you think!

I am LOVING the ghost cat theme that seems to be on a lot of shelves this year. So I just had to design my own! All of these are available on Spoonflower and Redbubble.

I saw an uptick in notes this month and it is all bots either dming me with fake accounts or replying to old art posts making me think someone is actually showing interest. And then I check it and it is copy-pasta very obvious Gaza scams.

A reminder that there are accounts that thoroughly curate real gaza fundraisers, only give to those.

Stupid clankers getting my hopes up.

My baby sister is turning 30 on Wednesday! We are taking her for a Disneyland day and I threw together a visor! I couldn’t find a pre-made one anywhere that I liked soo to the crafting table I went!

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

We have watched as our politicians have torn at the threads of our democracy, as they have sold us out to the highest bidders of industry. As they have terrorized our neighbors, our friends, our families. As they have worked from morning to the dead of night to rend the meat from the bones of our government and feed it back into the maws of the richest, just so they can grind the poorest beneath their feet. July 4th is not a day of celebration this year, we are a mockery of the country our lady liberty was built in the image of. It is our duty to claw back our liberty and our freedom, our humanity and empathy, before the country dies on the bodies of our best, our brightest, and most hopeful.

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happy birthday, asshole!

Lol i was at dashcon, I think the parade is actually worse because people did actually show up to the con. There were even celebrities that weren’t related to the person throwing the event (badumtsh).

I have a new pattern up on spoonflower! I finished the color variations a little late tonight so yay for an early morning Tumblr release! This one features our favorite Apothecary and her Moon Prince, as cats.

Check it out Here!
And on Redbubble Here