The knowledge for designing and drafting patterns is being shared by people (mostly women) through the Internet and has already been collected by some on computer media and paper. That knowledge will enable a much more distributed (small shop) industry for finished clothing manufacturing, but we also need to finish open source (licensed for free distribution, no patents) designs for small scale (but scalable) material manufacturing equipment to keep the global outfits from pricing supplies too high for small buyers.
You see, with long-distance, complicated transportation being too expensive in the near future for the current regime (global firms), a more distributed, community-based economy can and probably will happen.
Can some single, white, lovely, young, unattached, FReepette, let’s say around 30 years-old, contact me about a prospective “business venture”? You knit me socks, and I will help mend the fences on our farm for the sheep pasture where you get the wool to make my socks.
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Thanks in advance,
Rodamala