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Tire Sandals: Innovative Footwear Made From Old Tires. Make Your own Tire SandalsAdapted from Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills I'm hard on shoes. It's not uncommon for me to go through half a dozen pairs of shoes, or more, each year. I maintain an active lifestyle, hiking, playing, camping, and working. Water wears out a shoe quicker than anything else. If I do not happen to dissolve my shoes in water, then I wear out the soles on gravel. Really, I have never been quite satisfied with conventional shoes, and it's not just because I wear them out so easily. While I am at it, I have other complaints too. I go barefoot as much as I can, but like most people, I have tender feet--because I don't go bare foot all the time. I may practice primitive camping, but I also have to face the modern realities of the clock. To solve that problem, I have tried over the years many marriages between buckskin and rubber to make lasting soles on my moccasins.
The field tests of our sandals were quite exciting. Ernie. Open Source Textiles - Fibre Processing Tools For The World. There are a lot of different processes involved in creating a finished product, such as an article of clothing, from wool that’s still riding round on a sheep’s back. All of these steps have been automated in various ways during the industrial revolution, and various tools and techniques have been tried.
Many of them are opportunities for small scale crafters to create unique and creative products, but also, many of these steps can be drudgery if carried out in large volumes without machinery. So, lets dive into the main areas of wool processing to make fabric, and perhaps you’ll see some areas in need of open source technology. 1. Shearing: While electric shears are certainly faster than hand shears, sheep shearing remains a highly skilled trade which can probably not be any further automated. 2. Grading: Even within a given fleece there are a areas of fibre with different characteristics. 3. 4. 5a. 5b. 6. 7. 8. 9a. 9b. Oregon Wool Growers Association: Supplies.
Free Clothes Patterns - Craft Stew. Posted on | October 9, 2008 | 7 Comments I originally became interested in patternless sewing, many years ago, because I had a hard time finding patterns in my size. Nowadays, patterns in large sizes abound. Nonetheless, I still love my pattern free sewing. These patterns generally of three types. One type requires you to take your measurements and draw up the pattern yourself. Skirts are very easy to make without a pattern. I came across a few patterns that didn’t fit into any other category, so I gave them their own. We normally assume underwear is too complicated or to time consuming to sew ourselves. Aprons can usually be whipped up in less than an hour. Shirts and dresses are much more complicated to make than skirts.
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