Yeah, it's hard to figure out when you're a kid which educational opportunities would be useful in the future. Weaving, really??? I did not think so at the time, clearly. I didn't even begin to learn to sew until after college.
I can possibly fit a loom in my as-yet unremodeled upstairs, which we're figuring on putting insulation into at some point. Like, if from the beginning I'm like, there's going to be a loom here, then I can make there be room. ORRRR I mean the upstairs of the granary is a workshop space and if we can bring ourselves to Sawzall out the grain bin dividers from 1820 we could stick a loom in there instead, there's tons of room especially if we set all of Fiona's unclaimed hoarder shit on fire and don't tell her.
And the silkworms-- I mean, if you bought in new eggs to hatch at the same time as some eggs from your saved batch, then if you let a few caterpillars from the separate batch hatch out they could maybe breed. It'd be hard to guarantee, though, since they live such a short time, and like what if you only had a few survive and how could you be sure they were from the two different batches? On the other hand silkworms *are* super inbred, it's kind of what they do, so maybe just don't worry about it until you have a batch that fails, and then buy in some new ones, or if it turns out to be gourmet shit you can find someone who is a specialty breeder type and just source eggs from there, right? I'm saying "you" but I mean "me", lol.
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Date: 2019-03-05 05:15 pm (UTC)I can possibly fit a loom in my as-yet unremodeled upstairs, which we're figuring on putting insulation into at some point. Like, if from the beginning I'm like, there's going to be a loom here, then I can make there be room. ORRRR I mean the upstairs of the granary is a workshop space and if we can bring ourselves to Sawzall out the grain bin dividers from 1820 we could stick a loom in there instead, there's tons of room especially if we set all of Fiona's unclaimed hoarder shit on fire and don't tell her.
And the silkworms-- I mean, if you bought in new eggs to hatch at the same time as some eggs from your saved batch, then if you let a few caterpillars from the separate batch hatch out they could maybe breed. It'd be hard to guarantee, though, since they live such a short time, and like what if you only had a few survive and how could you be sure they were from the two different batches?
On the other hand silkworms *are* super inbred, it's kind of what they do, so maybe just don't worry about it until you have a batch that fails, and then buy in some new ones, or if it turns out to be gourmet shit you can find someone who is a specialty breeder type and just source eggs from there, right? I'm saying "you" but I mean "me", lol.