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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I would love to expand the project, honestly! I was badly hampered at the time I was working on it by lockdowns and travel restrictions, but there's so much more I'd love to do with it. There are some amazing textile artisans in this province, and I'd love to talk about more modern craft revivals.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Bobbins are from Thingiverse - www.thingiverse.com/thing:2256657 They're far too delicate at default 15% infill, for the record. I snapped a few just trying to remove the rafts or sand down a rough edge. 50% seems to be working much better so far.

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bobbin lace by Juankaconk

bobbin lace

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

January project - learn enough about bobbin lace making that I can bring a demo into my early modern class and not look like an idiot. I'm slowly working my way through Jo Edkins' tutorials, and I'm pretty pleased with the results! Here's my first try at the torchon ground tutorial.

A series of colored threads wrapped around sewing pins stuck through a piece of paper. They make an approximation of a lacy pattern.

A series of 3d-printed bobbins for lace making, hanging from pins pushed into a small lap pillow.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I've got tablet weaving cards going through now! I've also got my eye on a scan of a norse drop spindle that's up on Thingiverse. I bring in my own demo spindle now, but it'll be good to have a few to pass around.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The patterns were sourced from Thingiverse and Makerworld. Table loom by printsbyjayy, printed unchanged: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6167143 Simple weaving shuttle by Remikst, rescaled to be 15 cm long and 1.5 cm wide: makerworld.com/en/models/55...

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

As promised, the 3d printed table loom. It's quite small, as our printer bed is only 18x18 cm, but it works! The action's a bit stiff and it'll only hold about a meter and a half of warp, but it will be fantastic as a demo tool for my intro fashion history class.

A brown and blue two-heddle table loom, printed in PLA plastic and warped with embroidery floss. A few centimeters of fabric in a basic 1-1 weave is visible.

A side view of a brown and blue two-heddle table loom, printed in PLA plastic and warped with embroidery floss. A few centimeters of fabric in a basic 1-1 weave is visible. Three narrow shuttles are attached, each loaded with a different colour of embroidery floss for the weft.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm not quite sure what the moral is here, except that I no longer have anything except my own willpower holding me back from filling the house with plastic tchotchkes.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I regret to inform you that I have not yet printed the table loom. I have, however, printed two game organizers, a joycon adaptor, three external hard drive enclosures, two articulated dragons, and a bulbasaur planter for an aloe pup.

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My book! Short-listed for the 2024 CHA prize for best scholarly book in Canadian History. www.mqup.ca/fashioning-a...

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Hilary Doda @hjdoda.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

We got a 3d printer for the house last weekend. I found a pattern for a printable table loom yesterday. I know in my heart of hearts that it will be more frustrating than satisfying to try it out, but how can I not?

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