Open source textiles

eric from fashion-incubator.com

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show details Mar 30 (2 days ago)

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Hello; I'm an experienced wikipedist and thought I'd pitch in to your wiki. Looking at the main page, I note entries for things like Bakery and Energy bars, but nothing for textiles. A sustainable village needs to clothe itself, and while textiles are among the oldest technologies, I think that you are going to need to make and operate gins, spinning jennies, power looms, spreading, cutting, and sewing machinery. To make proper clothing, you will also find need for open source CAD to make, store, and customize open source patterns. This stuff is inherently scalable and useful -- the Industrial Revolution was built on this machinery. Would small scale industrial textile development be a worthwhile contribution to your project, or would I be working at cross-purposes with some principle? Thanks, Eric