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Silas James
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Costume manufacturer, miniature maker, cat feeder, has a lot of tattoos. Member of IATSE 705 MPC, worked on Shazam 2, The Mandalorian, and more. Currently making shitposty hope-core embroidery patches.
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I had to close my patch store because i couldn’t afford 40 bucks a month in Shopify, but I do custom digital embroidery, custom sewing and costume building, leathercraft, and more. Reach out if you need those things?

Been a rough year, so…tips appreciated. venmo.com/u/Sigh_Less
Six images, the top left is an embroidered patch shaped like a Bowie knife in the progress pride colors. Middle top is the back of a black leather and fabric vest with a pink embroidered skull on the center. Top right is a white leather jacket with a civil war era style. Lower left is an embroidered patch of an animal skull with the words “we’re all radical when we’re hungry enough” in between the jaws in pink text. Middle bottom is a selection of patches in a pile, featuring white or gold text on black fabric. Right bottom is a leather vest with a tiger like print, with gold eyeballs on the pockets and abstract shapes for collar wings.
September 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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OBTAINED
August 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Toe beans.
A close up shot of a black cat sleeping on a white sheepskin bed. The cat is fluffy, and the sun behind them makes them look golden brown. Their back feet are in the foreground, with the pads of their feet in focus.
August 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I made the smallest leather jacket I’ve ever made today (it’s to replace a shitty pleather one for a toy)
A black leather unlined trenchcoat. It is about 12” long, with proportional topstitching, fake welt pockets, and a collar. It is on a green messy grid mat, with scissors and crafting supplies around it.
August 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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May we all be as unbothered as the Fopling, seen stretching his feet out and hiding his face in his warm and comfy bed
A medium haired black cat sleeping in a fluffy white bed. There is sun from the window behind him making his fur look brown. His feet and pads are both toward the camera while his face is squished away into the bed.
July 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Fop offers one (1) bean sprout in these trying times.
A black fluffy cat in a fluffy bed curls sleepily, eyes watching the camera. One foot of the cat is in the foreground, with floofs coming out between the toe beans.
July 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Y’all I CANT DECIDE

I FEEL LIKE NEITHER IS RIGHT
June 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Buttons came in! Now to decide which ones. I like the lighter weight of the black bone ones, but the cast brass are really cool. I just wish they were a little smaller.
An embroidered linen shirt with a multicolor design. On top are two buttons on the collar, a brass ball button and a shank button with a brass center. The cuff has the same two buttons, a brass ball and a black with brass shank, on the embroidery as well.
June 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Cleaned it up a little, fixed the gaps between colors. The only annoying thing about these is all the color swaps
Two embroidered patches featuring the progress pride flag embroidered in the shape of a hunting knife. The handle has the intersex flag, then the white, pink, and blue of the trans pride flag, the hilt has the brown and black, then the blade has the pride flag colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The patch on the left is finished while the patch on the right is having the border stitched.
June 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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New patch in the works

Late for pride month but I’ve never been good with deadlines
An embroidered patch with the outline of a Bowie knife featuring the colors of the progress Pride flag.
June 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Dealing with all of the (holy, I can’t understate this, fuck) ice raids in LA I’m attempting to mock up unhinged edits to my alien bodysuit

Fop is yelling because bedtime was supposed to be at least an hour ago
A black fluffy cat stares at the camera. In the background a mannequin has green tape on it marking out an abstract bodysuit.
June 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Rather than having a pile of assorted hides I now have hanging cubbies to sort hides!

Also I have way too much vegtan. I…need to figure something out.
An expanding table on casters with a lower shelf. Hanging below the table are four fabric half loops, containing rolls of black, colorful, metallic, and natural colors of leather.
May 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Ah. I think I have to turn five months of on and off embroidery into a shirt now.
Multicolor embroidery of sashiko, blackwork, and a combination of patterns on rectangular black linen panels with overlocked edges. Clockwise from top is the collar, collar band, under collar, cuff, front placket, other cuff.
May 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Making the most of riding the bus- I’ve been working on the blackwork embroidery on this shirt for a few months now. The placket is the final panel.

Maybe. Might do something when I put the buttonholes in.
Single strand embroidery of multicolor thread on black linen. It creates a neckline, or the frame of a placket.
April 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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No Mans Sky…that’s a new one. On the Relics expedition.
March 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I’m really proud of this weird leather sleeve.

That’s all.
February 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Making questionable color choices for Neo builds (just try and stop me and my discount leather you cowards)
A blue irregular natural wave/woodgrain leather sits on top of a gold copper metallic leather with a semi alligator skin texture.
February 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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First time trying a full patch- not 100% sure if I like it but it’s a good first draft
An embroidered patch of an upside down carnivore skull with an open jaw, stitched in ivory and black thread on black fabric. On top in an italic capital letter font reads “We’re all radical when we’re hungry enough” in salmon color thread.
February 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Just one new patch this week. But I’m happy with it and I very much want to encourage the idea of refusing unjust orders.

You can find them, and more, here: tempestsonworks.myshopify.com
A machine embroidered patch held by a white person’s right hand above a green grid background. The patch reads “I’m Not Doing That” in gold thread and a gothic font. The middle reads “Naw.” In dark pink thread. There is small curling details above and below the ‘Naw’, stitched in gold thread.
February 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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More silly little patches dropping today!
A cut of four black embroidered patches on a green grid background. The top one is pink text reading “a computer can never be spiteful or horny”. The next days “Inexplicably Silly” in gold thread. The third down reads “make shitty art…”. The fourth reads “the journey is long and full of terror by I inch…” in silver thread. None of the full patches are pictured in this teaser.
January 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I’m gonna plug my store that has hopecore patches and leather wearables, in the hope that I can get a car again so I can be safe as I need to in the years to come tempestsonworks.myshopify.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Hello, I finally got a bunch of patches up in my shop. They are here.

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A variety of text patches on black fabric in a pile on a green gridded mat. Some on top say "Buy art from living artists" and "Caution: Bite risk".
January 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Hard lessons aren’t learned easily.
A three card draw tarot reading depicting, from left to right, the Seven of Swords, the Ace of Swords reversed, and the Ace of Wands. The seven of swords shows a person hooded and cloaked carrying swords over their shoulder away from tents. The Ace of swords depicts a hand holding a sword aloft, ringed by a crown and a laurel. The Ace of Wands shows a branch held aloft, lit at the end like a torch, with budding sprouts growing from the branch beneath the flame. The deck is Fyodor Pavlov’s Tarot.
January 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Soon (as soon as I can figure out the edge of legal culpability on a few designs I want to make)
An embroidery machine stitching out patches on black fabric. They read: “in a world of looming existential horror Joy is resistance”, “caution: bite risk”, “curious anomaly”, “in case of revolution: get bolt cutters and know your neighbors”, “physics laughs at your unreasonable expectations”, “buy art from living artists”, “give me space”, and one is still in progress to read “Hope is a discipline”.
January 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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New leather details.
A black belt with an aged brass D ring, and six brass studs. Four of the studs hold down a stamped brass ornament. The belt sits on a green cutting mat with 1” marks.
January 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM