Post ATec15aXDuQf4d7V2G by Eohippa@universeodon.com
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(DIR) Post #ATcpVuISAKHY7Olg4u by maximum_mew@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T00:07:13Z
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A couple of articles I found on Mastodon this past weekend have me thinking about the practicality of my weaving degree. #weaving @clive @pluralistic https://maryewarner.com/2023/03/14/on-the-practicality-of-a-weaving-degree/
(DIR) Post #ATcpVuvRpLTS4L0orI by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T02:09:02Z
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@maximum_mew @pluralistic That is a GREAT essay!I hadn't yet see the piece by @pluralistic you linked it -- it's super alsoreposting all now ...
(DIR) Post #ATcqiKVmcmVEqsUTRI by maximum_mew@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T02:22:31Z
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@clive @pluralistic Thanks, Clive, glad you like it! I was so surprised to see Cory's article right after yours. Not often I see articles on weaving on social media.
(DIR) Post #ATcrMupd0TL9517qgC by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T02:29:53Z
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@maximum_mew @pluralistic It's a pretty cool convergenceI want to read that new book on the LudditesI've been obsessed with them ever since I spent a few weeks researching them for this Smithsonian column a few years back: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/when-robots-take-jobs-remember-luddites-180961423/
(DIR) Post #ATctDFCkbbOxHISOmW by ruggledome@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T02:50:31Z
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@clive @maximum_mew @pluralistic If my memory is correct, the French lace industry is in serious need of Luddites. A few years ago I remember reading/discussing that it was getting extraordinarily difficult to fix, maintain, and use the looms due to lack of knowledgeable, experienced staff. They were starting apprenticeship programs, but they were behind the curve. Needless to say, I'm a Luddite fan!(There's a similar issue w/companies doing plissage. So much knowledge getting lost.)
(DIR) Post #ATcxVShbYm42AYpaqG by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T03:38:38Z
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@ruggledome @maximum_mew @pluralistic Aha, I had not heard about that! Gonna look into it ... thank you!
(DIR) Post #ATd3JQLz49jb8QMSem by ruggledome@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T04:43:43Z
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@clive @maximum_mew @pluralistic I found a recent video that lightly touches on the topic, plus has some good info/scenes of the process and machines.
(DIR) Post #ATdkh2clEseSWCiULI by maximum_mew@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T12:49:21Z
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@clive @pluralistic Excellent article on the Luddites, Clive! That was one thing I didn't get with my weaving degree ... a history of weaving or important events related to it. Heck, one of my work-study assignments had me photographing women's art out of books so they could be used as slides for teaching in art history classes. Most of the slides to that point featured only men's art.
(DIR) Post #ATeBXi4IzcfMvENJmC by kyle@social.librem.one
2023-03-15T17:51:24Z
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@maximum_mew @clive @pluralistic I really appreciated this post. I also think it's a shame that universities are now essentially treated as trade schools.There is certainly a place for both, and trade schools are valuable for folks who want specific training to get a specific job, but the value of a university education is supposed to be the enhanced background of knowledge you gain that makes you a more educated individual overall, compared to high school. It's not about job training.
(DIR) Post #ATeEbbMSAjUf8mPY48 by maximum_mew@indieweb.social
2023-03-15T18:25:42Z
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@kyle @clive @pluralistic That is exactly the point a friend of mine made on LinkedIn in response to my post, Kyle. College is for opening the mind, not just job training. Though, ironically, if I had taken the weaving course in an earlier era, it probably would have been job training.đ
(DIR) Post #ATec0dEaduEp8SdZwW by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T22:45:58Z
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@maximum_mew @pluralistic Aha, very cool!
(DIR) Post #ATec15aXDuQf4d7V2G by Eohippa@universeodon.com
2023-03-15T16:48:12Z
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@maximum_mew @clive @pluralistic Thank you a million for these pieces. Though never a weaver, I am an enthusiastic knitter and my devotion to the anachronistic world of horses perhaps make me an honorary Luddite. High school English Thomas Hardy first introduced the Luddites, or maybe our teacher's work to give Hardy context.A grad school lecture/demo by Laurel Ulrich of Midwife's Tale fame, awakened my interest in weaving. She used a flat linen crib sheet, first woven as (what passed for) a full sheet in the early 1800s to demonstrate the labor story Doctorow tells. (He's been on a roll lately, BTW.)I'll never forget the feel of the one remaining original, almost invisibly hand-hemmed, edge. The rest of the piece had been cut down and variously home-machine hemmed and patched over the last 100-ish years. Though those were interesting too, the capacity for the original linen hemming to survive into the 21st century blew my mind.
(DIR) Post #ATec16Ewnekt5y1m1g by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T22:44:34Z
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@Eohippa @maximum_mew @pluralistic Very cool!
(DIR) Post #ATec7hlMCihVCvKvpI by willowhouseprints@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T18:49:47Z
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@maximum_mew @clive @pluralistic I am delighted to see this sentence:âThe workers tried bargaining. They werenât opposed to machinery, they said, if the profits from increased productivity were sharedâEvery misuse of the word âLudditeâ is an opportunity to have a good conversation about who they were, what they stood for, and how relevant they remain.
(DIR) Post #ATec7iRteYjDKrEu8G by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T22:46:19Z
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@willowhouseprints @maximum_mew @pluralistic TotallyThey are extremely misunderstood!
(DIR) Post #ATec9uRw0RZF8MIr4a by clive@saturation.social
2023-03-15T22:46:46Z
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@kyle @maximum_mew @pluralistic Yep, truly