So I’m trying to make folk linen pants from sowing to sewing.
Second post (here’s first)
It’s been about 60 days since sowing (it’s 22nd of June). It’s looking so pretty and started blooming about 55th day. I’ve been watering it one or two wheelbarrows of every 2 weeks, which I thought would be too little but it’s growing pretty good. It’s still not that high (about over the knee) and I doubt it’ll get much higher sadly. That means lower grade of fibers but whatever. It’ll be fine.
Every now and again there are parts laying down and I’ve been seeing some hares running about so they probably hide in it tramping down the plants. But it gets up no problem so all good. Maybe next time I’ll put up a little fence around it.
Also idk when should I harvest it bc all the info is about oil flax, not textile flax, and even then it’s contradictory sometimes. But either way it’s around 100-120th day, so we’re still only halfway.
Next up I need to start thinking about scuthing it, and it requires some equipment. But it’s easy enough to build on my own probably. It should be something like this flax-brake:
And then this kind of metal comb, which I’ll make just by densly putting nails in a blank:
So yeah, that’s the plans for the near future. Here’s a bonus flax video if you stayed till the end ❤️
I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.
Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.
People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.
Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.
People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.
……… seeing people in my notes who seem to believe the only way workers could possibly be exploited is if they are not unionized, so obviously the solution that will automatically fix the problem is to form a union……………… hm.
the whole point of a union is it allows workers a mechanism for collective bargaining but that’s the thing. you still gotta do the bargaining!!! and after the contracts are in place you KNOW the bosses are still going to exploit their workers to the greatest extent they possibly can. people seem to think that forming a union is the end goal and while yes it is hugely important it is still literally just the first step in a CONSTANT neverending battle for workers’ rights
my controversial opinion is that real progress in the north won’t be achieved until the world decides to consider the native irish people a white indigenous population like the sámi
the decision to call the fighting here “catholic vs protestant” is literally to make it seem like a religious disagreement rather than a fight between the native people of the land and their colonizing oppressors
the complete lack of infrastructure in primarily irish areas as well as the total suppression of the irish language should genuinely be considered a human rights abuse internationally. why isn’t it?
