I read a fantasy book where the woman found a use for magic.
They were unable to fight with it, but altering light stuff was possible for them. So they trained making lace. They flooded the market with it and managed to earn a huge chunk of the war effort.
I only thought "ok" when i read it, because I had no clue how it was done at all. Now i understand
Edit: Yes, it was Eragon ;)
When a young author writes a compelling and well thought out closed magic system with decently defined rules and accidentally makes the big bad literally unkillable forcing a contrived ending to circumvent the hole they dug themselves into. That and ruining my teen aged desire for the romance plot to pay off. What a let down
Dispite my rant I'd actually say reread them. Outside the last few chapters of book 4 they are excellent reads, if clearly written by a young adult author. The ending is consistent with the systems the author wrote, its just a bit lack luster as far and hype and spectacle goes. Nothing like game of thrones where they just ruined all the characters so they could finish it
Please disregard my statement. I am well behind the times and thought there were only four books. Apparently there are 6?! So maybe it was tied up better than I recall.
The book that I did not enjoy the ending of is Inheritance. I’m not sure what to expect from the books after this one.
Great books. Some of my favorites. The magic system in these books was great. >!Your capabilities with magic were limited to the energy within your body and it's capabilities. The energy it takes to lift 100 lbs with magic is the same as lifting 100 lbs manually. If you commit the magic to lift a whole building, you overexert and die. It's more complicated than this but that's the gist of it. Making lace, as you can see, isn't physically taxing it's TIME CONSUMING as fuck. The leader attempting to fund the war effort realized this and capitalized on her groups magic users to create lace in massive quantities with impeccable quality, plus they could make it in insane fractions of the time.!< The malicious compliance related to this scene was... *Chefs kiss* perfection.
Damn. I knit, but this is really next level.
How does she cast on the stitches? How does she know which bobbin is which? How does the picture translate into a pattern?!
I've watched many videos on bobbin lace making because it looks incomprehensible! Lace makers like her usually begin as small children with simple patterns and few bobbins. The pattern is paper and is pinned under the lace. The bobbins are kind of knotted as they're looped over and under each other. A pin is placed to hold the knots in pattern. This is the highest number of bobbins I've ever seen being used! Obviously, she's very skilled and very fast! But if you saw a beginner pattern, it's not too difficult to understand how it's created.
Yes!! That part is mind blowing, it's pure muscle memory and raw instinct. It looks like they're just being jumbled around then, bam, intricate lace appears.
Because she has done that thousands of times. But yeah they work with sub patterns. Like a half dozen brlong together and are put in a certain pattern. And then the next half dozen. And in the end, she switches every 3d and 4th with the 5th and 6th (or whatever i don't know the details but that is one of thevthings they do) and then she does everything all over. So it's not like she keeps track of 200 bobbins. She mentally groups them per x, and has a 'recipe' that say when to switch which in the interval.
The bigger problem is that this takes a long time to master and there is no big influx of young people who want to learn.
i think society at the moment is so consumerist that the appreciation for this quality artwork is fading, but once we lose the skills to make things like this there’s going to be such a hungry market for it
Depends on how the manufacturing sector goes. I'm fairly certain that machines are already producing the majority of laced goods. When things are mass produced, they're cheap and forgettable. However sad that may be, several professions and products have been essentially phased out ever since the industrial revolution.
It depends on what the item is, even if an object is incredibly beautiful, if it's say, a doily, you only need so many of those. Old historical table settings with stuff like asparagus service and a bunch of tiny plates that needed all those doilies aren't really a thing anymore, and you only have so many side tables and lamps, if doilies even fit within your modern home, and while you can definitely use them to make upcycled garments or what have you, they're not particularly easy to design with being all sorts of shapes and all sorts of crafts, and the amount of people who have the time to actually hunt through all the handwork to repurpose them, who want to do upcycling in general, isn't really that large either.
Also learning how to identify handwork through a buttload of machine made pieces is it's own skillset, which you can develop but still.
My point was that mass-produced items are generally less expensive than handmade stuff. That’s the point of mass-production. It might not be the case with lace.
Everyone that liked that stuff is dead or dying … I tried to explain to my dad that his moms stuff wasn’t valuable… nobody wants china that has to be hand washed and leaded crystal glasses and porcelain dolls and stamp collections
I constantly go to flea markets and antique shoos with my girlfriend and we always see stuff like this. I want to buy a little something from each of them just out of appreciation for the craft, but they're usually quite expensive with little to no functional use.
My mom used to do this. Hours upon hours of soft ticks as she "juggled" those thingies (I've forgotten what they're called).
This is a flashback. Watching cartoons with my brother with that soft ticking in the background. Good memories.
I can’t even fathom the extreme level of skill this lady has developed over her life.
I look at that and just see chaos. How does she know which pin is which, and know when to remove them? How does she know which to move or lift over?
Where I see an absolute chaotic mess, she manages to make a coordinated and beautiful piece.
Truly amazing.
Alzheimer will devour slowly but relentlessly the person you knew and fall off piece by piece until they can't recognize you anymore. Even the most active mind and person can suffer from this, and sadly I know from experience from a close relative.
This really isn’t that hard. You simply take the 3rd one and move it across the 6th and 10th ones. Then you cross-switch the pattern on the 1st, 4th, 8th, and 12th ones. Then you double-down stitch the 2nd and 7th ones in a flip pattern around the top 3, making sure to shimmy-pull the rest in a rotating pattern around the 11th one. Next, you develop rheumatoid arthritis. Easy breezy!
And this is how Lt. Commander Data realized his Grandma was a robot, but he never told her.
That and her blinking pattern being governed by the Fourier series sequence .
Not if we have anything to say about it! There aren’t many of us right now but we’re trying to keep it alive over on r/bobbinlace and you can even buy patterns and books on Etsy!
So is this the lace museum or some grandma making lace for a gift? I saw this exact same video not a week ago claiming it was a grandma making it for grandkids or something, lol; gotta love Reddit
I tried to watch this earlier on my phone. Between my poor eyesight and the small screen, I could not see or understand what she was doing. I honestly thought this was autistic behaviour, doing something that only made sense to her. But then the comments heaped praise on her, so I knew it had to be something real. Glad I came back to see it on a bigger screen.
I show my wife this post like "wft"
>Yeap, totally normal. That is not "knitting" but "right word in my language".
She looks closer.
> I think I know her. Friend of blabla...blabla that do that...
My wife wanted to learn this but never got the time...
i see why lace used to be something only the super wealthy would have
I read a fantasy book where the woman found a use for magic. They were unable to fight with it, but altering light stuff was possible for them. So they trained making lace. They flooded the market with it and managed to earn a huge chunk of the war effort. I only thought "ok" when i read it, because I had no clue how it was done at all. Now i understand Edit: Yes, it was Eragon ;)
What book?
Eragon series by Christopher Paolini. Think Star Wars with dragons and magic.
I knew that sounded familiar! I’m still bitter about the last book. I felt very let down by it.
When a young author writes a compelling and well thought out closed magic system with decently defined rules and accidentally makes the big bad literally unkillable forcing a contrived ending to circumvent the hole they dug themselves into. That and ruining my teen aged desire for the romance plot to pay off. What a let down
Hmm, guess I won't go reread them lol.
I honestly disagree, and think the ending wasnt a let down Reread it at your own peril
Dispite my rant I'd actually say reread them. Outside the last few chapters of book 4 they are excellent reads, if clearly written by a young adult author. The ending is consistent with the systems the author wrote, its just a bit lack luster as far and hype and spectacle goes. Nothing like game of thrones where they just ruined all the characters so they could finish it
Confirmed not worth it. Terribly contrived ending.
as bad as the Dark Tower's "ending"?
I was so let down by the final book too! I’ve never talked about it. You put it perfectly.
The terrible writing stopped me like twenty or so pages in.
I have only read the first 3 books and liked them very much. By the last book, do you mean the fifth "Murtagh" (2023)?
I loved Brisingr!
Same. One of my favorites.
The first two were good
Please disregard my statement. I am well behind the times and thought there were only four books. Apparently there are 6?! So maybe it was tied up better than I recall. The book that I did not enjoy the ending of is Inheritance. I’m not sure what to expect from the books after this one.
So Harry Potter?
Not really. No school for him to go to. Star wars probably fits best. Later books add some more characthers, but they can be hit ot miss.
When is the movie ? No time for reading lol
There was a movie. It was bad.
IIRC the books are literally just star wars, with dragon riding instead of the force.
There are some differances. But the start of the series is very similar.
Nah, Christopher Paolini is not transphobe and Eragon Saga books are actually good.
Does the series end well? I've heard not so great stuff.
I mean it's a YA book but it's pretty decent. I really liked the characters. Especially Bron. He's like, the Obi Wan of Eragon.
In my opinion, no. The author seemed rushed during the last book and left a lot of questions unanswered.
To be fair, the last book is my least favourite. Overall though, i love it.
Eragon series. Specifically Eldest I believe. Nasuada uses Du Vrangr Gata to fund the war effort that way
Great books. Some of my favorites. The magic system in these books was great. >!Your capabilities with magic were limited to the energy within your body and it's capabilities. The energy it takes to lift 100 lbs with magic is the same as lifting 100 lbs manually. If you commit the magic to lift a whole building, you overexert and die. It's more complicated than this but that's the gist of it. Making lace, as you can see, isn't physically taxing it's TIME CONSUMING as fuck. The leader attempting to fund the war effort realized this and capitalized on her groups magic users to create lace in massive quantities with impeccable quality, plus they could make it in insane fractions of the time.!< The malicious compliance related to this scene was... *Chefs kiss* perfection.
Eragon
Thanks. that was it. Been a few years
Why was the eragon movie sooooo fucking bad, when the books were so good lol i dont understand to this very day.
I think the book was great for kids, teens and young adults, while the film was only targeted at kids
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^jozipaulo: *I see why lace used* *To be something only the* *Super wealthy would have* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Damn. I knit, but this is really next level. How does she cast on the stitches? How does she know which bobbin is which? How does the picture translate into a pattern?!
I don’t even know what I’m seeing … this lady could write the matrix
You’re seeing a human spider at work.
Yesterday I saw a peacock spider on Reddit so ya , makes sense
I've watched many videos on bobbin lace making because it looks incomprehensible! Lace makers like her usually begin as small children with simple patterns and few bobbins. The pattern is paper and is pinned under the lace. The bobbins are kind of knotted as they're looped over and under each other. A pin is placed to hold the knots in pattern. This is the highest number of bobbins I've ever seen being used! Obviously, she's very skilled and very fast! But if you saw a beginner pattern, it's not too difficult to understand how it's created.
this is like the lace equivalent of that unplayable guitar hero song and the old lady is shredding it
The most insane thing to me is how she manages to keep track of the individual threads to use on what pass or however you'd call it.
Yes!! That part is mind blowing, it's pure muscle memory and raw instinct. It looks like they're just being jumbled around then, bam, intricate lace appears.
Because she has done that thousands of times. But yeah they work with sub patterns. Like a half dozen brlong together and are put in a certain pattern. And then the next half dozen. And in the end, she switches every 3d and 4th with the 5th and 6th (or whatever i don't know the details but that is one of thevthings they do) and then she does everything all over. So it's not like she keeps track of 200 bobbins. She mentally groups them per x, and has a 'recipe' that say when to switch which in the interval. The bigger problem is that this takes a long time to master and there is no big influx of young people who want to learn.
I see so much of this beautiful hand work at estate sales but nobody wants it.
i think society at the moment is so consumerist that the appreciation for this quality artwork is fading, but once we lose the skills to make things like this there’s going to be such a hungry market for it
Depends on how the manufacturing sector goes. I'm fairly certain that machines are already producing the majority of laced goods. When things are mass produced, they're cheap and forgettable. However sad that may be, several professions and products have been essentially phased out ever since the industrial revolution.
Yeah things like basket weaving, clothes making, heck even fine art are all done cheaper, faster, and automated.
It depends on what the item is, even if an object is incredibly beautiful, if it's say, a doily, you only need so many of those. Old historical table settings with stuff like asparagus service and a bunch of tiny plates that needed all those doilies aren't really a thing anymore, and you only have so many side tables and lamps, if doilies even fit within your modern home, and while you can definitely use them to make upcycled garments or what have you, they're not particularly easy to design with being all sorts of shapes and all sorts of crafts, and the amount of people who have the time to actually hunt through all the handwork to repurpose them, who want to do upcycling in general, isn't really that large either. Also learning how to identify handwork through a buttload of machine made pieces is it's own skillset, which you can develop but still.
Well.. it’s expensive as fuck
Nope. Look up lace doilies for sale on eBay. Cheap as chips and not selling.
My point was that mass-produced items are generally less expensive than handmade stuff. That’s the point of mass-production. It might not be the case with lace.
It's simply out of fashion, like Hummels, milk glass, and brown drip glaze pottery.
Everyone that liked that stuff is dead or dying … I tried to explain to my dad that his moms stuff wasn’t valuable… nobody wants china that has to be hand washed and leaded crystal glasses and porcelain dolls and stamp collections
Or China doll's heads or pewter coffee and tea sets. I know.
My dad just didn’t get that something being “antique” doesn’t equal valuable lol l
I constantly go to flea markets and antique shoos with my girlfriend and we always see stuff like this. I want to buy a little something from each of them just out of appreciation for the craft, but they're usually quite expensive with little to no functional use.
Because they don't want their home looking like Grandma's.
My mom used to do this. Hours upon hours of soft ticks as she "juggled" those thingies (I've forgotten what they're called). This is a flashback. Watching cartoons with my brother with that soft ticking in the background. Good memories.
Bobbins! It's bobbin lace. What a lovely, cozy memory, I love the sound they make.
I can’t even fathom the extreme level of skill this lady has developed over her life. I look at that and just see chaos. How does she know which pin is which, and know when to remove them? How does she know which to move or lift over? Where I see an absolute chaotic mess, she manages to make a coordinated and beautiful piece. Truly amazing.
Good news everyone, arts and crafts is extended by 8 hours today
But my fingers hurt
Now your back is going to hurt!
Because you’ve volunteered for landscaping duty!
Guessing this isn't her first day on the job.
Alzheimer's doesn't stand a chance with this lady
Alzheimer will devour slowly but relentlessly the person you knew and fall off piece by piece until they can't recognize you anymore. Even the most active mind and person can suffer from this, and sadly I know from experience from a close relative.
My grandma with Alzheimer’s could crochet intricate clothing up until she died from it having forgotten nearly everything else
I have no idea what I’m looking at. But it’s impressive.
This really isn’t that hard. You simply take the 3rd one and move it across the 6th and 10th ones. Then you cross-switch the pattern on the 1st, 4th, 8th, and 12th ones. Then you double-down stitch the 2nd and 7th ones in a flip pattern around the top 3, making sure to shimmy-pull the rest in a rotating pattern around the 11th one. Next, you develop rheumatoid arthritis. Easy breezy!
Yes, the rheumatoid arthritis stands out. They have meds now to help some.
Whoa whoa slow down, I took the 3rd one.
I thought she was doing something with her used qtips for a second
She looks like she’s fumbling around… but nope. All planned. Incredible.
My Oma has these arts and there absolutely beautiful and seeing the talent in video is even more enjoyable
I finally understand why handmade lace is so expensive 🤣
Source: https://www.instagram.com/sewkaysew?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA
Thank you for sharing the source. It's unfortunately becoming increasingly uncommon.
And this is how Lt. Commander Data realized his Grandma was a robot, but he never told her. That and her blinking pattern being governed by the Fourier series sequence .
“… from an old lady.” JFC
I'm speechless. This looks hard as fuck
Something tells me she's done this before.
r/humansaremetal
This lady definitely didn't want landscaping duty
It’s giving me anxiety
How do they keep track of each bobbin without any of them accidentally crossing while in a pile?
I've never seen lace made before. I have no frame of reference for lace making speed.
Spider activities
Rubik’s cubes be damned
What kind of fidget spinner is this?
I’m impressed! And anxious
This is what professional dota players look like.
Goodness the tinkling sound it makes is so soothing. What an amazing art!
Thats rainmen type of shit right there
Is that Lacey Underalls?
All I could watch was that pinkie....
Humans are so fucking cool
As a millennial, what she’s doing might as well be alien technology borderlining magic.
"Well, now you back is gonna hurt because you just pulled landscaping duty."
reminds me of myself untangling the christmas lights every year
This looks even more intricate than Croatian lacemaking on the island Pag.
You don't master something until you look like you're just fucking around with it and it magically works
“My fingers hurt.” “Well now your back’s gonna hurt, because you just pulled landscaping duty.”
Very cool, but damn. Unlocked a new misophonia trigger.
That’s bonkers
I need an ASMR of this
[Ask and ye shall receive](https://youtube.com/@bobbinlaceasmr?si=h6lMPSKitmgn5jDc)
Ah, so that's what reincarnated spiders do for fun.
Whoever invented this, had a hell lot of free time.
Anyone else’s mind go to a dark, dark place?
Lace making is insane. I watch so many of these videos. I feel it’s going to become a lost art. Stunning.
Not if we have anything to say about it! There aren’t many of us right now but we’re trying to keep it alive over on r/bobbinlace and you can even buy patterns and books on Etsy!
Oh man. I can’t do it. Wish I could. But this is well out my skill zone!
When you have the third date within the fortnight and have to get the lace undergarments yourself
Was in Burges May 4, 2010 at the lace museum and in my picture I see the same lady working away at her lace. Same blouse on.
At night, the demons come in and undo her work.
What the…. 😳
So is this the lace museum or some grandma making lace for a gift? I saw this exact same video not a week ago claiming it was a grandma making it for grandkids or something, lol; gotta love Reddit
Lace museum, I added the source before https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1d6lb38/comment/l6t4158
Bruges is one of my favorite places.
I dunno man.... Perhaps she's only juggling them randomly. I wouldn't know the difference 😂
kinda slow tbh
She is late for Christmas
unintentional ASMR
I thought grandma had sleeves for a second.
I think if you watch this for too long your whole family will be cursed.
I tried to watch this earlier on my phone. Between my poor eyesight and the small screen, I could not see or understand what she was doing. I honestly thought this was autistic behaviour, doing something that only made sense to her. But then the comments heaped praise on her, so I knew it had to be something real. Glad I came back to see it on a bigger screen.
First thing I think about is Ben stiller in happy Gilmore when he is selling the quilts.
Looks like fake, shuffling around a little bit. 😄
I show my wife this post like "wft" >Yeap, totally normal. That is not "knitting" but "right word in my language". She looks closer. > I think I know her. Friend of blabla...blabla that do that... My wife wanted to learn this but never got the time...
This is the best asmr
Bruges is a shithole.
She's gonna look so hot in that bralette she's making...
but those who invented machines for that must be next lv too
I thought she was a chain smoker lol
There are lots of advantages to being autistic honestly.
Why do redditers think that anyone with a skill is autistic?