The fiber room is a serious catalog with yarn on its sleeve. The collection is big enough that browsing needs actual structure, not a gallery of pretty skeins.
At a glance
| Collection measure | Current count |
|---|---|
| Items catalogued | 1,974 |
| Approximate shelf size | 25.9 GB |
| Books / references | 913 |
| Magazine issues | 106 |
| Patterns / leaflets / booklets | 943 |
| Rows still needing metadata work | 1,096 |
What belongs here
Crochet, knitting, weaving, stitch dictionaries, old leaflets, magazines, pattern books, technique references, odd duplicates, messy filenames, and the notes that make a collection usable instead of merely large.
The honest part of a library
The catalog tracks duplicates and bad metadata rather than hiding them. A lot of collection work is deciding which copy is canonical, figuring out what a numeric leaflet actually is, and preserving the original filename long enough to undo a bad cleanup decision.
One repeated structure becomes cloth. The mistakes remain physical.