The walks like a duck, quacks like a duck but is not a duck fashion incubator in Chicago aka the AIBI is holding their annual fabric and trim sourcing show May 13-14, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM on the second floor of the Merchandise Mart Conference Center.…
The intertubes are awash in debate over the $550 khakis described in yesterday’s NY Times article. Grace mentions an interesting point -also commonly debated:
The first article gives me pause. Here’s why. In lower cost areas of the country, the realtor commission is 7%.
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Kevin Carson forwarded me a message from Margarita Benitez, the mastermind behind osloom. Osloom is a DIY open source loom project. Briefly, the project goal is to develop blueprints and specifications for one to build their own loom. Specifically, a jacquard loom.…
The trend in comments from the first entry leads me to believe it could be time for a review of basic concepts of industrial sewing. It’s been a long time and maybe some people aren’t familiar with older content on this site.…
I wanted to tell you about something I did on a home sewing site but it is a bit off topic. There’s a big sewing forum called Pattern Review. It’s huge, over 200,000 members. I only read and participate in a few threads because I don’t understand a lot of it.…
