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Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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A place to share ideas, knowledge and creations with textiles. The focus is on reducing waste, whether that be sewing from the scraps left from other projects, using the end of rolls and remnants, or repairing and remaking finished pieces.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny thing. in German we call many wood, metal or plastic building materials like sheets, pipes etc. "Halbzeug".

This translates literally to "half thing"

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Kartoffeln = Frittenhalbzeug