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@futurebird Absolute hard no on synthetic fibres whenever possible, but I quite like 100% cotton flannel! Plaid is just the pattern while flannel is the weave (that gets brushed to make it fluffy) and did use to refer to wool only, but these days can be any fibre as long as it's treated the same...

Printed on patterns offend me, deeply. The print is never quite on grain, so if you cut the fabric on grain, the patterns will not match. You'll end up with either a wonky garment or wonky patterns. Unacceptable!

Wool, in some cases, can be very very nice... But also I have three cats, I can't be bothered to own a casual use garment that I can't launder the everliving fuck out of if a cat horks, pees or rubs something worse on it! Jackets and coats I'll take in wool, though.

I don't always wear the colours of my people (plaid flannel, lesbians) but when I do, I make warm Victorian underwear out of it. Leisurely putting together a couple of pairs of drawers to recuperate from yesterday.

It is the season! Shawl season! Tagging in #Selfie so people can filter out, but this is here so you can look at my cat!

@futurebird It's not like people of the past didn't know how to make nice things with very rudimentary supplies! The Lascaux cave paintings are literally dirt on rock and they're elegant, dynamic and expressive!

@futurebird Just completely off the top of my head I can recall seeing crowns, headdresses and such from the 1200s equivalent of Persia, China and Japan with much finer gold-smithing, and maybe better cut gems? But also it just looks a bit clumsy and like the stones poke out instead of being integrated at all. Sorry to the original artisans, but it looks a bit like somebody got told to make a crown out of sheet brass and party jewellery for a LARP.