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Underneath It All
1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk & gird your loins! We're talking skivvies, undies, unmentionables, lingerie🩲– that's right: underwear. Tonight we'll part the veil & to find what lies beneath. We've got witchcraft, weird myths & plenty of spice. 🔥 🔥 🔥 But first, mummies! 2 – Tradition says Adam & Eve used fig leaves, but the most likely first "underwear"…
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Coming Up Paisley
1 – Greetings, everyone. It's time for #ThreadTalk! By popular demand, everything's coming up paisley. #Paisley is an ancient motif with a Scottish name–to learn more about it, we'll be traveling the globe🌍, visit goats 🐐 & talk shit about the East India Company 🤬. 2 – Paisley's proper name is boteh or buta, but it's also been called "persian…
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The Story of How I Got Literary Representation
The journey from story to agent is not as as straightforward as you think.
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The Venerable Bead
Beadwork is one of the most ancient forms of self-ornamentation. From the plains of North America to the deserts of Africa and beyond.
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Muslin and The Lost Traditions of Bangladesh
1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk, muslin edition. Muslin has been all over my feed, so let me cut to the chase: The finest fabric in human history was perfected by the Bengali people but tragically lost in the wake of imperialism & economic ruin at the hands of the English. 🤬🤬 2 – Muslin was once called "The vapor of…
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Announcing Queen of Fury Coming Spring 2022 From Vernacular Books
Coming early next year, the continuing adventures of Hwyfar, Princess of Avillion.
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Colors to Dye For
Human beings are drawn to brightly colored clothing: but at what price?
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Embroidery: A World Heritage Art
1 – Welcome to #ThreadTalk. This week’s subject: #embroidery. This fabric art—both fine and folk — is a world heritage art, meaning its inception goes back before recorded times. So tonight, I’m taking you on a tour around the world. 2 – The word "embroider" comes to English by way Frankish and Proto-German & may mean “braid” or “embellishment.” From…
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Fashion and Fiction: Don’t Forget The Missing Thread
If you're a writer and you have no real interest in fabric or fashion, you might gloss over that footnote. After all, arms and armor are a bit flashier, not to mention the allure of foodstuffs.
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Voluminous Velvet
I'll admit it: before I began looking into velvet, I had no idea it was so complex or so expensive.
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Writing With ADHD Part One: Writing, Emotions, and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
It’s been a few months now since my official ADHD diagnosis. The fact that I’m almost 40 years old has not escaped me. There were a lot of weeks where things Were Not Well in My Head. Not scary bad, but the kind of bad where you’re looking back at your ENTIRE LIFE and things both make a HUGE AMOUNT…
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Lace Yourselves: We’re Bobbin
1 – Lace yourself, darlings. It’s about to get drafty in here. Welcome to my #ThreadTalk. What began on the collars of Catholic clergy & adorned the pages of Frederick’s of Hollywood centuries later? That’s right. Lace. And #ThreadTalks go, lace is relatively modern. 2 – The word itself comes from a Vulgar Latin derivation, from the word “laceum" (a…
