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Natural plant sources for textiles. Includes nettles, flax, linen, jute, cotton, sisal, and other plant-based fibers.
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not another yarn blog (spinning, weaving, and natural dyeing)
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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving
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keyhole garden in summer drought
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Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn
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Growing Cotton in The Great White North - Yes, it is possible to grow cotton in Canada!
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Vancouver Island fibreshed - what are we getting right? what's missing?
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Home processing Cotton and Linen on a small scale
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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials
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Flax to Linen group of Victoria made a movie for you!
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A book on designing a permaculture farm with a focus on Fiber?
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Great big thread of Harvest photos!
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Vegan friendly warm and natural textiles - a big oldfashioned brainstorming thread
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Weaving lavender wands - for moth repellent and fun
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Plant fibers for clothing
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What are "natural fibers"?
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What works for making yarn from plants?
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Are any Canadians interested in growing cotton?
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Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre by Raven Ranson
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One thing led to another, and now I've made a squash dome
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Trying to find a really good blanket solution
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What are "natural fibers"?
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Planting my first flax bed!
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how to remove mildew from cloth?
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How to tell if material is natural or not
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Launder Beeswax out of Cotton
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Retting Yucca Leaves
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Using daylily stems and leaves
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Help with Overly Coarse Nettle Fibre?
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Aspen bark - just a thought...
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video of my rope making
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cyperus papyrus
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Make broom the easy way
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Adams Needle fiber, cut, retted, combed, washed, dried, result!
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Chamaenerion angustifolium (fireweed/rosebay willowherb) as a fiber plant
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Great video for identifying fabric material types
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Turning Seaweed into Fabric: How Do We Make It Water-Resistant?
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Dock stalks for broom making
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Cattail fiber can someone help me
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Tamarisk/Salt Cedar for rope/baskets/arrows etc...
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Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre by Raven Ranson
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Twisting a cord for basketry
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Trying to find a really good blanket solution
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What are "natural fibers"?
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Make broom the easy way
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How to tell if material is natural or not
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Aspen bark - just a thought...
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Great big thread of Harvest photos!
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Permies Poll: Cake vs Skein vs Hank vs Ball - Which is your favorite form of yarn?
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Retting Yucca Leaves
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Clothes from wood bark
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Planting my first flax bed!
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Weaving lavender wands - for moth repellent and fun
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twig structures, jute longevity
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Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn
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how to remove mildew from cloth?
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Where do different natural fibers shine?
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Dock stalks for broom making
4 months ago
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Help with Overly Coarse Nettle Fibre?
4 months ago
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Using daylily stems and leaves
6 months ago
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cyperus papyrus
6 months ago
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What works for making yarn from plants?
6 months ago
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Learning to spin yarn on a drop spindle
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Cattail fiber can someone help me
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Sources for Flax/Linen Processing Equipment
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Growing Milkweed for Bast Fiber
8 months ago
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Tamarisk/Salt Cedar for rope/baskets/arrows etc...
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video of my rope making
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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials
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Cat tail
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Adams Needle fiber, cut, retted, combed, washed, dried, result!
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Fluff from Willows and other Trees
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Chamaenerion angustifolium (fireweed/rosebay willowherb) as a fiber plant
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The craft of rope production
10 months ago
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Artist Diana Sherer 'domesticates' plant roots into intricate geometric forms
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Great video for identifying fabric material types
10 months ago
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Crafting with plant residues
11 months ago
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Turning Seaweed into Fabric: How Do We Make It Water-Resistant?
11 months ago
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Launder Beeswax out of Cotton
11 months ago
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Directed plant root weaving
11 months ago
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Plant fibers for clothing
11 months ago
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Turning worn-out cloth into paper....or at least trying to!
1 year ago
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looking for advice on growing cotton
1 year ago
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Stone Age (neolithicum and before) techniques
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Banana Fibre - useful or not for spinning?
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