craftsmanship, consumerism, virtue, privilege, and quality

exceedingly premium

made on the very machines that authentic, virtuous high-quality craftspeople would have smashed to pieces in protest at the destruction of their way of life

xp you left out the important part man alive

A crew-neck sweatshirt made in Wakayama, Japan, of 100% cotton on vintage loop wheel machines, which are known to weave a sluggish pace, with only a single meter of fabric produced every hour. When compared to contemporary manufacturing methods, Loopwheel machines apply a very low thread tension allowing the production of an exceedingly premium and unique fabric. The resulting material feels like it has been hand woven, with a stretchy element to it, a quality that cannot be replicated by modern production techniques. The crucial difference is that Loopwheel fabric is knit in an oval shaped sequence to yield a fabric that will comfortably stretch with wear, but will return to its original dimensions with a wash.

you may not agree that a marginal cost is worth it but it's not just "slow for slow's sake"

the marginal cost, not a marginal cost

Even the "very low thread tension" of the Loopwheel process is not nothing, and -- especially in combination with the downward effect of Earth's oppressive gravitation on the threads -- tugs hurtfully at one's skin.

you can buy a companion "grounding" liner iirc

Yet another reason to go to Wakayama this June.

was there always a prestige line of Champion sportswear/sweats or did this pop up in recent years as a cash grab because of the trends

I always thought it was a standing brand that was just kind of standard sportswear with some downmarket products

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/food/896779-kroger-class-action-says-artisan-ice-creams-mass-produced/

lmao

the ingredients, as listed on the packaging:

Milk, cream, sugar syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, whey, skim milk, natural and artificial flavors, cellulose gel, guar gum, cellulose gum, mono- and diglycerides, locust bean gum, polysorbate 80, ground vanilla bean, carrageenan.CONTAINS: MILK

That's like one notch above the lawsuit about Drive not being a Fast and Furious type movie.

a+ piece on CNC (computer numerical control) stone carving tools used by Carmelite monks.

Is it the Carmelite monks for whom labour, infrastructure projects like reclaiming land, and construction is their expression of faith? Is the computer code that makes it easier to accomplish this godly or impious? it’s just a tool, right?

contains a grebt coding bug anecdote:

At the very end of each window sill, after it had completely finished carving, the code told the CNC machine to repeatedly pound down into the top of the sill, almost as if it was a giant fist.

it was the cistercians.

that's sick as hell