Textiles, Fiber Arts, and Needlecrafts

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This community is for all of the above!! However, it has an extra emphasis on:

Projects that incorporate multiple crafts (knitting/weaving/etc) in the same work.
People who do more than one kind of textile.
Questions/discussions that transcend any one specific craft.
Rare forms of textiles (nalbinding/kumihimo/etc) with too small a web presence to flourish in their own dedicated forum.

This is mainly because the more popular textile methods already have their dedicated communities, and we don't want to divide their audience. Here are some of the existing ones:

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Welcome to Bistitchual! (piefed.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by MxRemy@piefed.social to c/bistitchual@piefed.social

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As in bi-stitch-ual. I didn't come up with it though, there's a very popular subreddit by that name, and one whose presence I've sorely missed since moving away. While there are already a bunch of needlecraft communities in the fediverse, as far as I could tell, most of them are dedicated to specific popular crafts (knitting/ crochet/ cross-stitch/etc). That leaves a void for folks interested in, say, ply-split braiding. Or combinations of crafts, like knitted garments with tatted trim.

Also, since PieFed isn't exactly a 1-for-1 Lemmy clone, I figured it could use some of it's own versions of communities anyway.

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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for settting up camp here!

I'm just a very slow amateur knitter and I haven't taken off enough time to do that lately either, so I'll probably just lurk here while I mess around with much less ambitious projects. But I love what you've shared already - it's incredibly inspiring, even if it's so far beyond my skill level it's not even funny.

And it's very cool to learn a bit about different traditional techniques!

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago

I think you'd be surprised! Honestly I would consider myself very much an amateur too. I'd love to see what you're working on, even if it is less ambitious. Those are the best projects to me because they're low stress.