Tag: craft

firesidetextiles:

These stunning pieces are a collaboration between The.Ginger.Ewe and DaughterOfHalloween over on Instagram. They used my pumpkin spice fabric for the handcrafted yarn bags and paired them with matching hand-dyed yarn! The colors are beautiful! The lighting on the purple bag and that yarn makes me swoon. I’m so ready for fall.

Their initial run of these sets sold out, but they’re temporarily opened up pre-orders until Sunday, August 5th. You can snag one over here on Etsy if interested.

kaynoxxcrafts:

So, for those of you who dont know, Etsy just added transaction fees on orders and shipping for sellers – costs that are going to negatively effect buyers and sellers alike.

Etsy’s target audience is primarily female and our hand crafted goods are already undervalued so often, this is just another nail in the coffin… especially since Etsy went public a while back and the marketplace flooded wth wholesale shops that very frequently rip off designs made by smaller shops and then mass produce knock offs at a ¼ of the price. And let’s be honest, the people making these items are most likely not getting paid an ethical wage.

If you’re looking to relocate your shop elsewhere I’ve listed a few places that I’ve had good experiences with and that come highly recommended. If you know any others, please reblog your suggestions! 

You can also kick up a storm on social media outlets to let people know about these charges. it means higher costs that are probably going to cost more for buyers and less sales for the shops. 

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cassinicultist:

wittedknitch:

cassinicultist:

Witchy talking point: hygiene is important, but consider:

•what occasions would you not cleanse the relevant space before a ritual/spell/thing?

•items would you not cleanse before using them, and what for?

•occasions/times you would not cleanse yourself in some way beforehand?

I mean…laziness means I rarely do the first or last (unless casting a circle is also cleansing) except for particular rituals.

But if you were drawing on the energy of the space/object, then cleansing it would disrupt or remove the useful energy imo. Like a crossroads, roundabouts, junctions, I don’t even know if cleansing them for Aspell would be possible given the constant influx of energies.

At this point in my life so many of my rituals are centred on me that I do come as I am, considering that ‘me’ is not a pure core in an earthly cloak but more of a cloud of components in a skin, with all the marks of the day on it. A ‘low magic’ approach where I’m not considering that aligning myself with higher powers is the end goal, nor is it the method.

Some cleansing methods are less like a gentle wash, or a carefully considered dusting with a tiny brush and a can of air, but like an acid bath launched at an area. And in my way of getting things done an acid bath just gives you a different clean-up to do afterwards. Very few situations warrant the acid bath approach.

Everything Can Be Measured In Thread

moiraecrochet:

My whole life I felt that everything could be measured in thread.



What binds us to others is as tenuous. Our frustrations are no different than a tangle. Our discomforts are snags, while illnesses are tears that may run and ruin us. 

Families and ancestors are woven together, with complex patterns emerging over generations. And the world is a vast tapestry held together by invisible threads, with brief and brilliant colors that appear and disappear just as quickly.



Our lives are measured in thread. 

This is done by the fates, the apportioners, the Moirae, that men and gods must submit to. Three sisters singing in unison – one of the past, one of the present, and the last of what is yet to come. They sing as Clotho spins the thread of life, as Lachesis measures it, and as Atropos cuts it.


Duty determines our destiny, as silk is meant for sutures and hemp is used for rope. Our experiences shape and test us, unraveling our life to help us find the fibre of our being. 



At the outset of any project or life there is no clear form or function, it is only as we approach the midpoint of either that we can begin to see the construction and shape. This is when we can breathe deep, and know our efforts have meaning and a place in the world.



Everything can be measure in thread

vrabia:

officialromaniantranslatiuni:

http://www.bihorcouture.com

hey friends, if you care about cultural appropriation and the damage it causes, please check out this awesome project!

in 2017 dior copied the design of a traditional romanian coat from the county of bihor and sold it for 30,000 euro, giving no credit to the local artisans. in response, romanian fashion magazine beau monde helped the community create their own brand, bihor couture, which sells the original coat, handmade to order, for 500 euro a piece. they also sell other traditional clothing and jewelry for much more accessible prices (5-45 euro). they’ve been hugely successful so far, and currently have enough pre-orders to cover 4.5 years of work, with 100% of the profits returning to the community. 

it’s surprisingly common for big name fashion designers like dior, gaultier, tom ford and altuzarra to copy traditional romanian clothing and sell it for ridiculous prices, with minimal original input, while giving nothing back to the community where these designs originated. it’s completely unfair that a big name designer can just steal so much hard work and misuse it to make huge profits. 

please support bihor couture, if not by ordering one of their products, then by spreading the news around. it’s really awesome to see a small community fight back against cultural appropriation so successfully. i hope they carry on for a long time!