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Cathy Douglass (thiotimoline@gmail.com)

Projects

  • Things I have made

    • Textiles

  • Phiala's string page
  • Worm Spit
  • Sashiko
  • Viking resources for the re-enactor
  • Warp weighted looms
  • NF.Film-10517 NF.Film-10484 Warp weighted loom in use as a live tradition! It is too bad Marta Hoffman of the Norsk Folkemuseum was not a weaver and lacked the background to understand all she tried to document, but we are so lucky to have gotten this in time.
  • On 3-Harness Weaving: Cataloging Designs Generated by Fundamental Blocks Having Distinct Rows and Columns [pdf] Combinatorics of woven cloth structures
  • A Fisherman Knits Unusual perspective on high-performance knitting and spinning, focused on traditional gansey sweaters
  • TECHKnitting Knitting tricks and techniques, explained in great depth with many diagrams

    • Carnivorous plants

  • Insectivorous Plants (Darwin online), the first serious inquiry into certain odd little marsh plants. Beautifully illustrated.
  • California Carnivores
  • Carnivorous Plants Web Ring

    • Mushrooms

  • Tom Volk's Fungi
  • Mushroom Expert

    • Neat stuff

  • MIT Science Fiction Society (MITSFS)
  • Seeing the polarization of light with the naked eye
  • New York subway map timeline (Other cities elsewhere on site.)
  • List of fictional materials How I name my computers.
  • Wax tablets Medieval technology: a high-res pocket whiteboard that doesn't stain or smear, and even smells good! Not many people make them nowadays; I like the diptych + bronze stylus I ordered from Scribal Workshop.

    • Friends

  • Andrew Clough
  • D. W. Rowlands
  • Keegan McAllister <3
  • My old blog Not many posts; all are about wild mushrooms.