Amazing. I forwarded this to my fiance, she’s gonna love it.
I guess the main benefit is clothes will potentially fit better, but isn’t the fabric still gonna be likely sourced from a sweatshop country? And isn’t it going to result in a lot of waste fabric as I cut out a template?
There are quality fabrics still manufactured but they are not often used in mass production of garments.
Any garment production requires scrap fabric. However a crafts person can repurpose and use those scraps where as a factory will just discard them. Also a huge amount of the waste in fast fashion in over production of products that don’t even sell and never get used before going to a landfill.
The most solarpunk thing would be having your wife and daughters and aging mother sit in a room with some looms several hours a day making fabric from scratch whenever there’s nothing to harvest from the fields.
The most solarpunk thing would be having robots do all this work in an environmentally sustainable way. And lots of leisure time for every human around.
You know what’s solarpunk? Indentured servitude.
@Cool_Name that’s super cool! 🪡 plus, they have mastodon accounts : @freesewing @joost 🤩
That’s actually fucking kickass
Absolutely.
I don’t know enough about sewing or programmable vector designs (heck, I don’t even know what it’s call). So, I can’t really contribute to the project. But I really want it to grow, so I promote it wherever I can.
I dream of it taking off like blender or Wikipedia and eventually having an archive of thousands of designs. Even, if most people wont sew their own it would help some people start small businesses creating quality clothing.
On the concept of blender, I’ve been recently trying to get into Seamly2D/Valentina for pattern drafting - I’d love to see some kind of simple integration format between the two so that the FreeSewing patterns can be easily loaded into Seamly2D instead so the measurement files can be used from there and the pattern tweaked.
