Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.Ars Technica
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Dear people who sew: do you have cucirini tre stelle sewing thread where you get your sewing thread? Here (just north of Milan where it is from) it is *the* sewing thread, and it was for my mother and for my grandmother, but I'm wondering whether it's a very local thing or not.
Gente che cuce: da voi c'è il filo per cucire cucirini tre stelle? Qui (un po' più a nord di Milano, da dove arriva) è *il* filo per cucire, e lo era per mia madre e per mia nonna, ma mi sto chiedendo quanto sia una faccenda locale.
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So, I've bought some linen thread to handsew a shirt or two, nothing unusual.
And then I've spotted what is the main reason why they sell it today (bobbin lace), and that reminded me that it's something I try to do some time ago, and really wanted to try again, sooner or later.
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I thought my grandmother's cotton or linen tatting looked like micro-crochet, and projects are small, fitting in a pocket so well. Strong too. Tatting could hand-reinforce button holes and add small loops to things. I might have a tatting shuttle somewhere. . . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatting#… . Grandmother's looked like the metal-hooked one in this pic: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
Piccolo thread sul concetto di "promuovere le proprie opere" su Livello Segreto, che siano articoli, podcast, saggi o sculture di gommapane.
1) Potete farlo! Anzi, è incoraggiato. Siamo qui per scoprire cose interessanti, per parlare, per confrontarci. Per fare nascere alleanze e potenziali collaborazioni.
Ricordate però che questo non è un social freddo. LS punta a essere un punto di incontro più umano e concreto, dove non serve scannarsi per l'attenzione. (segue)
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Aaaaand, the instructions for my next #freeSoftWear pattern have been written, and the shirt itself is almost done! (I'm attaching the sleeves, and then I need to finish the hem and making buttonholes).
And then I only need to edit a truckload of step-by-step pictures, and add them to the instructions.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love *having released* the source code for my clothing under a Free License? :D
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And since my hands were hurting a bit from the handsewing, yesterday I started a new pattern for a machine sewn skirt, this time from a 1892 book and cut most of the fabric.
And then I discovered that I dont'have matching thread and I need to visit the haberdasher :(
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e niente, non riesco a ricondividerlo nel modo “mastodon”, ma questa cosa si deve VEDERE!
mi assumo le mie colpe e ne vado fiera (ma non è solo colpa mia :D )
Sappiate che è colpa vostra questo. https://paste.gl-como.it/YUo6iNvW/+inline#.mp4social.gl-como.it
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I'm following instructions on a book to sew a 1830s hat.
The first thing I did this morning was running 3 + 3 meters of gathering thread. by machine.
you may want to call the sewing police.
(I'm going to wear the hat with a dress that is based on a 1920s look, anyway)
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Toward a Broad Ethical Software Licensing CoalitionWe are passionate about and dedicated to the cause of software freedom and rights because proprietary software harmfully takes control of and agency in software away from users.Software Freedom Conservancy
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Cats know the order of the universe. When there is a space, they fill it. When there is a platform, they occupy it. When there is warmth, they bask, and when there is shade, they lurk.
This might go some way to explaining the neat pentagram of cats on my front lawn when I got home one evening, and the shocked little demon that sat at its center beneath a fading tendril of smoke that curled up into the moonlit night.
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Signore e signori, cittadine e cittadini, procionə e cinghialə l'assemblea del collettivo puntarella.party ha deliberato per il progetto "Calendario 2023 di #ChieseBrutte".
Invitiamo tuttə coloro che vogliono partecipare a inviare le proprie foto all'account @ChieseBrutte. Le migliori 12 immagini ci terranno compagnia nel primo anno post-guerra atomica e lə autorə saranno omaggiati di un pregevole prodotto editoriale. Chi voglia collaborare al progetto con idee, assistenza tecnica, food & beverage è caldamente invitatə a scriverci.
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There are two main historical figures that are often cited as supposed “martyrs for science.” The first is the Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, who was murdered in March 415 AD by a mob of Christians who supported Cyri…Spencer McDaniel (Tales of Times Forgotten)
Un modello eliocentrico con orbite circolari è comunque un'approssimazione abbastanza grezza del sistema solare, in cui invece le orbite sono ellittiche.
A quanto ne so, il sistema geocentrico con epicicli era già arrivato ad un livello di raffinatezza tale per cui *per i calcoli* poteva fornire risultati più precisi rispetto a quelli ottenuti con un modello eliocentrico a orbite circolari, il che è probabilmente uno dei motivi per cui il sistema geocentrico è sopravvissuto nel tempo.
In other #screenPrint news, today I tried the drawing fluid + screen filler from the kit I've bought, and made this
yeah, it worked, I'm not sure I'll use this technique a lot, since I'm not painting things free hand, anyway, so I can just use the UV sensitive thing anyway.
However, to make things a bit more interesting, I tried to print using two colours in a gradient:
The strips of paper will be glued to a cardboard box where I'm keeping my screen printing supplies (that's why I did them in the first place, beside the experimenting bits)
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it worked!
My third attempt to #screenPrint a qr-code was a success! (nothing like correctly inverting the image to allow a phone to recognise the code :D )
I'm going to keep this screen, because I expect to use it multiple times in the future, to print it on garments and accessories, and/or to make small patches to sew on them, as applicable.
I've also found a good way to keep the screen stable when exposing it to the free UV lamp in the sky :D
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TIL: vlc <torrent url>
not that I'm surprised, since vlc <anything that points somehow to a bit of video> tends to work :D
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Mi sembra si stiano facendo un po' i conti col culo dellə altrə rispetto alla gestione del conflitto in Ucraina.
Tipo: "rispondere all'attacco armato con le armi è come cercare di spegnere il fuoco con la benzina".
Ok, chiaro, ma se hai i carri armati che ti sfilano sotto casa e case o scuole colpite da missili, da essere animale in generale, puoi fare solo tre cose: scappare, combattere, fingerti mortə.
Chi può sta scappando, chi non può o non vuole prova a difendersi.
Mi sembra da privilegiatə giudicare la risposta del popolo. Banalmente, in guerra non ci siamo noi, per ora.
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Io sono in un paese Nato eppure mi professo anarchico, scrivo contro le istituzioni su un quotidiano autogestito indipendente, vado ai Pride. Tre cose per cui in Russia finirei in galera. Non ho altro da aggiungere.
I like it how in Italian there is no right and wrong side to fabric, but a front and a back. And sometimes the back is the right side for your project.
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A few updates on #screenPrint progress.
I've tried making a screen with the photoemulsion: even printing the design on tracing paper instead of transparent and using the sun for exposure (instead of a lamp) it worked nicely and printed sharp and precise.
except, I missed the fact that inkscape had not actually inverted all of the design, and thus the QRcode I tried to print was unreadable :(
At least, I know what went wrong and I can fix it on the next attempt.
I've also found that the kit I've bought doesn't have enough screen cleaning fluid for the number of screens I can do with the available photoemulsion, so I'm waiting a bit until I can get some screens I don't have to reuse (for a few designs that I plan to print multiple times) and more screen cleaning fluid.
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I've also received some wood frames and tried to make another screen with curtain fabric and white glue: this was a success.
I've washed the screen from the back and I can confirm that the glue part survived: I think I will check it for holes and retouch it a bit the next time I'll use it, but it shouldn't need a lot.
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And then there was this, which isn't experimental or anything.
Done with plastic stencils (made with product packaging) based on clipart found on freesvg.org.
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Yes, there is a war going on and it's really scary.
The point of cw'ing that stuff is not to just "ignore current events", but to allow people who have depression, anxiety, etc. to navigate spaces without constantly having their mental health under attack.
There is little most people can do about the situation in the world and humans are not made to handle all that stress we are exposed now constantly. It makes us feel powerless and helpless. This is also why whataboutism pointing to a bad situation here and is not helpful. It makes it worse. It is not clever, most of what follows "what about ..." is things that suck and are known and just stress our powerlessness.
Just cw so people can dose their intake of horribel stuff.
Thank you.
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OFFERTA DI LAVORO
Da queste parti c'è un serramentista abbastanza grosso che sta cercando un saldatore professionista.
Meglio se con patente C.
D.M. se vi può interessare.
Boostate, grazie
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The way hollywood depicts pre-modern battles follows a perfectly legitimate literary tradition, already seen in the Iliad, of showing two armies getting ready for battle, not having a frigging clue on how war worked centuries earlier and going on with depicting duels between named (and in the case of hollywood unhelmeted) heroes strictly based on the Rules of Cool.
On the other hand, as far as we know Homer didn't have wikipedia.
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TIL: The Mondeluz #watercolours from Koh-I-Noor seem to be the same watercolours as the White Night from St. Petersburg ones.
At least, the one random pan I bought (raw umber) has the same number and pigments as the corresponding White Night, it is made “in cooperation with” the producer of the White Night and it has their logo at the bottom of the pan.
I've never tried the White Night ones for a comparison, however.
And it is a full pan, something I couldn't find on the web site before buying.
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If you want to get angry at the modern internet, try and make something and give it away for free.
Look at how many things you have to either dodge or hoops you have to jump through in order to do something nice, without involving BigAnything or MonetizeEverything.
When you're done, try imagining doing all of this as a person who never learned to be the technical person you are. Someone interesting with interesting, or even important, things to say.
Let's figure out how to fix this.
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Anyone with a book or other form of literature they want to publish and distribute for free can contact kat@invicious.net and provide the text file(s) along with the name they want attached to it, etc
We've made aberrata.net/epress to be an always-free, no-bullshit online publishing group
Mainly to satisfy my intense love of typesetting stuff
Information doesn't just want to be free --- it also wants to be readable!aberrata.net
I had a combination of interest, opportunity, and outright priviledge to make it possible for me to learn about technology despite it not being my job.
That isn't everyone's story, and I'm interested in more ways to make it possible to share things without the person who didn't learn this stuff having to be exploited to do so.
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Uops, I forgot to post a picture of the @Gruppo Linux Como lake penguin
no, it's not perfect, and I should practice a bit more, but the LUG t-shirts are close to becoming a *thing*.
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Today I drove my mother and a neighbor to a fabric shop.
And I bought the bit of cotton canvas suitable to make a couple of bags / backpacks to be screenprinted, exactly as I had planned to do.
And I absolutely have not bought a full dress and a couple of waists. Not even if the goods were really good quality at an exceedingly affordable price.
I did resist buying broadcloth for the skirt that will go with those waists, because black broadcloth is something I'm always going to find, and first I need to make the whole set of underthings for it.
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And I've taken a picture; the brown one is for my mother.
(3 small bolts of fabric in light brown, red and almost electric blue, seen from the side)
And I forgot to mention that there may also have been a cut of black lace, probably enough for an overskirt and to decorate a shirtwaist, and I didn't take a picture either (uops).
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TIL: a collection of icons for #games, under the CC-BY license
(found on ludism.org/ppwiki/SteampunkPie… , which. which. I. need. that.)
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Hidden in their mountains, the Swiss have power plants that run on Balrog's fire.
Prove me wrong.
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Too Italian; Didn't Read: offer of a postcard with COMMIE stamp to Italian addresses
L'altro giorno son stata dal tabaccaio a prendere qualche francobollo, e mi han dato quelli commemorativi del congresso di Livorno del 1921.
Ora, visto che è febbraio¹, qualcuno del fediverso italiano² è interessato a ricevere una cartolina scritta a mano con un francobollo COMUNISCHTA?
Offerta limitata al numero di francobolli che ho preso meno il numero di lettere che già devo spedire in Italia :D
¹ #InCoWriMo
² secondo la definizione di Italia delle poste, ovvero con indirizzo di consegna in Italia, San Marino e Vaticano³.
³ e se qualcuno ha l'indirizzo di consegna in Vaticano, bonus point per il LOL.
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The pad is A3 size, but it is kept together with rings and there is a line of microperforations to remove a sheet from the pad outside the ring area.
And this means that after being cut, each sheet is slightely shorter than A3, and can't be cut in e.g. 8 A6 sheets.
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TFW you write something with visudo so that you know that it will work, then you copy it in ansible, run the ansible playbook, and it breaks.
And then you open the file that ansible has written with visudo, save it with no changes, and it works.
And you spend hours trying to understand what happened.
And then it was a missing newline at the end of the file.
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Se sei infastidito da quello che sta facendo #Signal, non passare alla prossima app centralizzata, tendono tutte a fare una brutta fine dopo un po' e non puoi farci niente.
Usa invece una soluzione decentralizzata, come #XMPP, #Matrix o #Deltachat
I protocolli federati come questi permettono a tutti di poter scegliere il server a cui connettersi o avere un proprio server interconnesso come succede con le #email
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Experimental #screenPrint, day I've lost count :D
Art print on quality paper in a suitable mediu… no, really, more like in-joke from an IRC channel, printed on red MÅLA paper in negative with a grainy white area of paint all around it.
Anybody wants the original? only one copy, it's going to sell for a lot of money when I'll become famous :D
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For the experimental bit: I've forgot to take a picture of the screen, it's the same one made with curtain fabric from social.gl-como.it/display/3e3c… , painted with PVA glue and a bit of craft acrylic paint.
While washing the screen, I've tried at first to scrub it from the back, and I believe that the paint was going away while keeping the glue in place to reuse it for another edition. I would have to test whether that's true, however. Then I've moved on to scrubbing from the front, and that easily removed the glue, so that the fabric can be used for different prints.
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Today's #screenPrint results were… let's just say it's important to talk about them to prevent publication bias :D
I've spent yesterday evening painstakingly painting a QR-code on curtain fabric with PVA glye (and a bit of acrylic paint added to know what I was doing).
and then today I tried to use it, but it's definitely not clear enough to work
with the white bit way too grainy for any phone / computer to recognize the pattern.
On the plus side, the paint I'm using (marabu textil print) washes easily (with some rubbing) when it's still fresh, so I haven't wasted the scrap of fabric I was using. It may be a sign that it's not going to be as resistant to future washing (after heat setting) as other fabric paint I've used, which is less good, but while doing random experiments it's fine.
Also, while washing the screen the glue went away, which it didn't on the homesewing screen: I'm not sure whether it's the acrylic paint, the fact that it was relatively fresher (less than 24 hours) or the fact that when I washed it I scrubbed it as if I didn't care whether the glue survived or not, while I was more careful with the homesewing screen.
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I knew that there was this risk, and that the right way to print a qr-code is to get some proper screen fabric etc., so I'm not too sad about the result.
But I had to try, and it had to be with a qr-code (I could have started with a smaller one, however :D )
And I know that the right way to print things like these is to buy proper screen fabric etc., but I'm not going to do that for some time yet (right? :D )
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Where “people who sew” includes “people who got tricked the cookie tin multiple times and noticed the brands of sewing supplies in it” :D
Dove “gente che cuce” comprende “gente che è stata fregata più volte dalla scatola di metallo dei biscotti e ha fatto caso alla marca dei contenuti” :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Sempre visto solo quello fino a quando non hanno aperto i negozietti cinesi.
cucirinitrestelle.com/
Cucirini tre Stelle, il Filato che vince ai punti!
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Sui rocchetti c'è scritto semplicemente "FILO"
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •From Detroit area: No, I'm regularly hopping between several nicer sewing stores, and I have not seen that brand at any of them.
There is one very high end store I go to very rarely (as in asking to handle their stock of bridal fabrics starts with them handing you gloves fancy) who stock lingerie fittings I need occasionally; I will take a look the next time I am there, but I don't recall seeing this brand.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •Thanks everybody for the answers.
Yeah, gutermann is also the main brand available here in supermarkets etc., and their polyester thread is fine (but I try not to use it), but imho their cotton helps giving cotton thread a bad rep.
Grazie a tutti per le risposte.
E sì, gutermann è la marca che si trova anche qui nei supermercati, e il loro filo di poliestere è decente (ma cerco di non usarlo), ma secondo me il loro filo di cotone aiuta a dare cattiva fama al filo di cotone.
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