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The Allied airmen who escaped a Nazi POW camp in the now-famous Great Escape used a hectograph--aka a gel printer--made with rations saved from Red Cross packets and empty food tins. The copied thousands of maps and forged papers this way! (2/2)

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Learn about the relationship between material and garment design, find out some of the interesting construction techniques people used, and follow us down deep dives into a variety of practices, from traditional weaving in Japan’s Ainu culture to how Egyptians made pleats without an iron. 5/

Join us as we explore garments like the Tarkhan dress (the oldest woven dress), the sari, the kimono, and various garments discovered on bog bodies, among others. 4/

People who spent days (or months!) creating fabric (or processing animal skin) did not typically throw away pieces of it. Many cultures developed clever techniques to use up all of the material they created, to provide ease and comfort to the wearer, and to make precious fabric fashion. 3/

Up until relatively recently, when factory-manufactured fabric became readily available, many garments around the world were naturally low and zero-waste. 2/