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Werner Plangg (1933 – 1994). Canadian Monarch. Oil on canvas.
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also I ended up looking at stuff about soviet agricultural experiments and apparently dogbane (Apocyonum cannabinum) was introduced to the USSR as a fiber crop plant? ???
found this ebook from 1902 which is the first time I've encountered the thing I was searching for so long- an EXHAUSTIVE list of Everything that can be used as a textile fiber.
Starting to get alarmed at how much information is trapped forever in obscure books from 1902 because the sources that came after failed to repeat it! what!
We were really into investigating the potential of plants to be useful before plastic happened, huh.
I don't understand why dogbane hasn't got any attention in the textiles world. it was used by basically every native american group in USA for, what, 12,000 years minimum? It gives crazy yields, the fibers are RIDICULOUSLY strong and sooo soft, and requires zero chemical processing or retting. You could mechanize the harvesting and processing easily. In terms of the quality and usefulness of fiber and the amount you get out of it relative to the amount of work it just blows everything else out of the water
but NOBODY'S USING IT
I found all this stuff because i was looking up sources on dogbane. Most sources that even MENTION dogbane in the past 30 years are literally just discussing how to kill it with chemicals
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ius this real???
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Spread the word, watch this wonderful OVA in excellent quality!
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no wind, no problem
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ur-daily-inspiration
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when i was reading the book entangled life which is about fungi and the author merlin sheldrake said that once he got his first author copies he was going to dampen the pages and use them to grow oyster mushrooms and yeast and then use the yeast to brew beer and then drink the beer with the mushrooms to complete the cycle of fungal knowledge. i was like really and truly this guy gets it
he ate his own words.
But really and truly. The cycle is not complete until he dies.
junesqueer
I’m not sure how or why, but this is goth as FUCK.
his brother cosmo is a musician and made a theme song for it and god I wish it was longer because it slaps
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Sequences from my finished animation. Inspired by a dog named Teacake.
