Someone elsewhere once mentioned that linked double standard crochet stitches have the same structure as two-stitch wide rows of Tunisian simple stitch, except sideways! I haven’t looked into it enough yet though.

My prior Lemmy instance (lemmy.one) is abandoned and slowly losing functionality, and I had to find somewhere new to move, so I figured… why not PieFed? I like if so far! Seems to be playing well with the other thread platforms, hopefully I’m doing it right.

Feel free to post your work if you get back into textiles again!

Sounds interesting, sure! What would that entail?

Done, thanks!

Yup exactly! Far from finished though lol.

I went with cotton, thinking how quality undergarments are usually made from that. Hopefully that was a good idea, would synthetics have been better?

It definitely sounds like a good point to me though! Luckily I designed it to be washable, hopefully that’ll do? I’m in Philly which definitely has its hot and humid day, but probably not as bad as Miami does lol.

Wow, AND it broke despite being one of the strongest types of spider web! On the other hand, I think the way they plied it is not how things are supposed to be done, for good reason. Correct plying ought to make a world of difference. From what i saw in the video, it only seems like a lot of web if it needs to be continuous. To make yarn, it’s not at all atypical to spin many shorter fibers together rather than few long ones. And caterpillar tents are super abundant! The differences in strength between insect webs might still be a real issue though.

Somebody else mentioned that they think caterpillar tent silk just balls up into a big stacky wad, so you might need to submerge it in something that would cut the stickiness first. That also made me think of another possibility. What if, instead of spinning it as-is, you dissolved it in a solvent and then electrospun it onto a rotating spool? And then plied the result?

Thanks! I hoped that wouldn’t be lost on folks lol.

Those sound like a great addition! I think I might like to throw in a bunch of dried spicebush berries next time, seems like a similar complement to cinnamon and clove.