108 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 17 Jan \ on: Stacker Saloon
The art of sock knitting 🧦
I dunno is it just me, but now that I'm wearing mostly handmade things, not only it's more meaningful, but I feel they are warmer, maybe because they are made with human hands? and with all the waiting made me value them more.
Sharing my product testing 2.0, with natural dyes wool 👀 ( not knitted by me but by a really talented lady that I found in the black sea region, and I guess because it's so cold there, people's knitting skills are really advanced! Like wow, with really beautiful patterns and cool techniques. )
And the "problem" with natural dyes is there aren't too many colors to choose from, but then I don't need so many colors:
- blue - indigo
- brown/black - walnut shell
- purple - red cabbage leaves
These are the colors I love the most, so it's quite an easy problem to solve! my idea for all my clothing is a. natural fabric, b. traditional pattern - they are somehow really so eye-pleasing, I've been traveling around to collect inspirations. c. simple and natural color d. long-lasting
So simple, but there aren't many people making them? Oh, ofc thanks to the evil fiat money!
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want to get my digging skills? 🤓
Mainly two ways:
a. by searches and many searches, but this can only lead you to the next step.
b. visit the places where these makers live, and also ask locals, maybe have more hidden ones ( rarely in big cities )
Then do the stupid thing - buy and test, and keep filtering out the average ones, and once you find a really great one, then you check what people they hang out with ( people like to hang out with like-minded and skilled people, OSINT comes in handy 🤓😂 nah joking, people love to post with their frnds these days! ), and then you keep digging, test and repeat:)
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