Second year into making my own clothes! Not only I'm unsatisfied with chemical dyes, as I've shared before, but I also want to control the fabric from the start now, so here I am - don't underestimate what is possible, even in a foreign land! so I went back to the master yesterday and had a try myself because it looks really fun and seemingly easy while watching; hmmm, it's not that hard, but you need to focus and patient, and quite relaxing at the same time - I merely want to touch ( and break things then make it better ) to see what's possible 👀, and how certain structures are being weaved, because I have some ideas in my mind, and I want to see is it doable...

e.g. this one, basically you skip some lines and don't weave there.

this one is the same, and you repeat the "skipping".

The weaver is the one truly has freedom to decide whatever she likes, yet most people think once they are "rich" enough, they can buy whatever they like, while in fact they only get to buy from what's in the market, which is a limited freedom; And to make things even worst, people are rat race buying what whatever brands to show their social status, yet being fed mostly massive produced junks?

And I am not sure how many of you dig into these so-called fashion industries, I was a bit shocked seeing how the layers of layers middlemen work, and then again the weavers/makers earn the least while doing most of the work, it makes total sense not many people keep doing these time consuming yet beautiful crafts: