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BellingenNSW

Platypus floor rugs

"The bush and its inhabitants were to be conquered and subjugated and the turning of wild and 'exotic' native animals into rugs was symbolic of that conquest. The fact that the rug was intended for use as a bed covering further emphasised the 'domestication' of this 'savage' land...Platypus skin rugs are commonly made from 70 or 80 skins and a single rug therefore represents considerable slaughter of the local population." >>
collection.powerhouse.com.au/o

Auction: An early Australian Platypus rug of 56 pelts, the animals taken from the Namoi River at Manilla, Northern New South Wales, circa 1900. The Baldwin family represent a classic example of the white colonialists ... >>
auctions.leski.com.au/lot-deta
#platypus #textiles #wildlife #AnimalCommodification #biodiversity #FishingGear

Yvonne Perkins

A team in Bairnsdale, Victoria recently participated in the Back to Back Wool Challenge where a team shears a sheep with manual shears, spins the wool, and knits a jumper in a day.

Read this for some drama and also to learn about a knitting yarn producer who uses the wool of her 90 year-old father's flock of merinos.

#knitting #textiles #Australia #wool #sustainability

abc.net.au/news/2025-07-05/woo

ABC News · Back to Back Wool Challenge puts spotlight on slow and sustainable textilesBy Rachael Lucas
Global Museum

Virtual and In-Person Program
Rug and Textile Appreciation Morning: Master Dyers to the World.
Saturday, July 19, 11 a.m.
Curator Lee Talbot will highlight artworks and themes from Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger’s 1982 exhibition and catalog that galvanized international interest in Indian textile studies.
Free, registration required

museum.gwu.edu/rug-and-textile #globalmuseum #textiles

NullNoMore

Today's Textile Talk (free, Zoom, 2pm Eastern GMT/UTC -4): How To: Storing, Shipping, and Exhibiting Fiber Art (Surface Design Association)

"Dive into the details of how to best store, pack, ship, and exhibit textile- and fiber-based work with an eye towards preservation. Curator and Gallery Director lydia see and Textile Conservator Amanda Holden will present on a range of methods [...]."

Preregister: saqa.com/resources/textiletalks

#TextileTalks#Textiles#Preservation
murderfox

taking advantage of waking up BEFORE EIGHT 🙃 by doing a ton of laundry while working on a #dye project I've been meaning to get to for a couple weeks now

I've been needing new sheets forever; Midna loves digging in the sheets with her little claws and now there's a BUNCH of tears and holes in the fabric. I've thought about mending them, but they're knit (T-shirt fabric) instead of woven, so I may just tear the sheets up for yarn or use them for another project, idk

BUT I bought two sets of pale purple (woven) sheets with the intention of dumping them into a #dyebath to make them dark purple. however, since they arrived, I've been reading a lot about #shibori, so I'm attempting some shibori-like dye resists

Midna is very interested in the damp bedding on the suddenly cleared off kitchen island, so bonus kitty photo!

#CatsOfMastodon#crafting#textileArt
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