Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.

[Duke Mantee]

Hot dogs tonight - so a good bread roll was required ...

[mlwdp]

You need all that for a Nathan’s? 

[Duke Mantee]

I was a bit peckish 

[redragon]

Home-made sausage to go with those?

[mlwdp]

Seabees helped set the record straight, just take the name of the shop on Rakuten you buy from and put /name of shop/ on the end of Rakuten.ne.jp/gold.  Seabees is great btw, bought a few Buzz items from them for cheap.

 

Edited May 17, 2020 by mlwdp

[Duke Mantee]

5 hours ago, redragon said:

Home-made sausage to go with those?

Unfortunately not my sausage making skills are non-existent - but we had a very nice dog from Farmison online butcher

[unders]

A fascinating look into batik dyeing. Must confess I’d never heard of this until last night. Fast forward to 14:30:

And for any curious non-Brits, yes we all sound like this. 

[Geeman]

If I close my eyes I'd swear it's Unders talking.

[JDelage]

Batik is very cool. IndigoPeople has a number of indigo batik.

[Double 0 Soul]

^^..and we all wear pastel slacks with a panama hat from Marks & Sparks classic range.

Edited May 17, 2020 by Double 0 Soul

[MJF9]

Super fabrics and vicarious travelling with Portillo (words I never thought I'd say)

 

[Duke Mantee]

 

 

Ellie was needing essentials so I grab our big canvas totes and set off down to the local supermarket - it’s literally a 10-15min stroll and it’s pointless taking the car especially when I’m not getting out (shouldn’t really be out at all which is why I limit it to one trip per week early in the morning). Halfway there I pass a police car parked up on a junction island. There’s a young cop sitting in the car and he waves to me - I nodded back.

The supermarket is really quiet and I get all the things I need quick style and with the bags loaded up I head home. Getting back to that same junction there’s now two cop cars and as I approach the new cop gets out of her car and signals me over.

I walk over and ask “what’s up?”

She took out her little electronic notepad thingy and asks “can you tell me where you’ve been and where you’re going?”

I stood there with a full tote bag over each shoulder, looked at her, then looked over to her colleague who I passed initially and is still sitting in his car - he shrugged and I say to her “are you serious?”

She repeats the question

I reply “just fuck off and do a proper job” and walked past her ...

I never got another peep out of either but the duchess is terrified we’re going to get a knock at the door 

Edited May 18, 2020 by Duke Mantee

[unders]

Good for you. I bloody hate the police. They really are a bunch of antagonistic shitfuckers. 

[MJF9]

Haha that made me laugh both

Seized on a good opportunity to let it all out there Unders

[Duke Mantee]

29 minutes ago, unders said:

Good for you. I bloody hate the police. They really are a bunch of antagonistic shitfuckers. 

I’ve no problem with cops or anyone for that matter - but that was just wank. Especially after the first cop had waved all friendly like and watches me standing with bags full of nappies and baby food

[Flash]

She'll never make detective 

[JDelage]

Frank Herbert: "Power attracts pathological personalities."
There's a proportion of cops who think their uniform is a license to boss around the rest of us.

[SuperJackle]

2 hours ago, Flash said:

She'll never make detective 

In the states those kind of folks do make detective. Hell, Captain probably...

[SuperJackle]

Thought I would show you all the finished boro quilt that my wife was working on. Kind of hard to get the whole king size quilt in one picture, but check out that puckering after its initial wash!

[lance]

What beautiful work, rep for Mrs. SuperJackle! 

[SuperJackle]

2 hours ago, lance said:

What beautiful work, rep for Mrs. SuperJackle! 

She wanted me to post the finished product because I told her how impressed everyone was with the last round 

[JDelage]

Very cool. Bravo!

[Maynard Friedman]

FAO 00 Soul or whatever handle he’s using these days!

[Double 0 Soul]

I'll have a read in a bit, we've just got home from sitting on the riverbank in the sunshine fishing all day...damn you coronavirus, i could have been at work

[MJF9]

@Maynard Friedman got distracted jumping around that blog... a good read

[Double 0 Soul]

Tis, they deem Sheffields Manor estate 'the worst estate in Britain'..

 

 

[Maynard Friedman]

The blogger is a published author too, I can highly recommend his book on the history of council housing.

[aho]

Any good leads on face masks? Am aware of 45rpm and Kiriko (the latter I found hard to breath); Looking for something breathable yet sufu approved. Not denim, which is def too thick

EDIT: Went with the Railcar Wabash: https://railcarfinegoods.com/collections/mask/products/mask-type-1-wabash 

Will report back on comfort and fit

Edited May 20, 2020 by aho

[oomslokop]

my mum comes from a family of batik makers up to the 80s. still remember playing near the dyeing pools and being chased away coz kids do fall into them (quite deep) and there were many horror stories to scare us kids of indigo dyed baby ghosts. 

here's a sarong i was given for my circumcision ceremony. i actually wore it as i had my foreskin chopped off by a "bong supit" at home. it's made from batik tulis, literally "hand-written batik", aka hand-drawn. from one of the last production from my mum's company in solo, central java. the city has one of the two major remaining javanese royal houses (the other being jogja two hours away, where my dad is from) but they would like to think they're the more refined and rarefied. the company went bankrupt because of the proliferation of batik cap (stamped batik using copper stamps) and batik print (self-explanatory). 

close up of the pattern on my circumcision sarong. the "negative" patterns are "written" into the cotton cloth by hand using a "canting" pen that discharges hot wax that quickly cools. the cloth is then dyed leaving the areas beneath the wax uncoloured. then you can put more patterns in, redye the cloth with other colours, you can go on endlessly (not gonna go on here, you can look it up on youtube – edit: just got around to watch the video @unders posted, it's all there! ). this cloth is at least 35 years old.

the actual cloth, when it hasn't been made into a garment, comes in large rectangular shaped fabric (forgot the dimension). you buy it wrapped long like this in batik market. this is another batik tulis cloth, a "batik lawasan" (hand-me-down) from my late grandmother. insanely expensive. let's just say way more than a csf tuxedo, this one would be around 40 years old. 

close up of the pattern on the lawasan.

close up on another lawasan, also around 40 years old. the same flower but not quite the same (see the dotted edges of the petals). isn't that what we just love here, same thing but not quite the same.

and yes it's selvedge.

that's why i can never quite bring myself to wear wabash bcoz pffft so primitive.

it used to be in my bucket list to send some batik to kuniyoshi-san to be used as pocket bags on a custom order. oh well. 

 

Edited May 20, 2020 by oomslokop

[lance]

Beautiful work, good stories ooms!