iridium's link page
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.