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Deborah Butera

Deborah Butera

Fiber artist and content creator based in Gent, Belgium; knitter, crocheter, and sustainable fashion advocate behind @unraveled.studios.

Jul 8, 2026

11:34
Yes.
11:34
And I think that if I just make one video that immediately says a bunch of names on different platforms you can immediately go to, it's easier for you to follow a bunch of people and then your For You page and your algorithm to be like, "Okay, that's what you wanna see.
11:49
We're gonna show more of it." Um, so I did that last year, and then for this year I was thinking, "What do I wanna do for, uh, Black History Month? I wanna do something." And I- Just started, the goal in the beginning [laughs] of February was not to do every single day.
12:08
I just did-

11 MINS LATER

23:02
Yes.
23:03
You definitely, definitely do not need to make something for other people.
23:09
You can make things only for yourself, and you don't even have to justify it.
23:14
It's fine.
5:58
... what does that mean?
6:00
What that means is, um, the aspect of if I would say if, like, 100% of the study of fashion technology, I would say it's, like, 80 to 90% looking at manufacturing, looking at prototyping, looking at how to make a bill of material, all of the technical aspects of creating a collection, um, how to grade patterns in different programs, how to work in Illustrator-

15 MINS LATER

21:47
... helped your approach to living with this new diagnosis?
21:53
Yeah.
21:53
I honestly think, um, that, I honestly think that starting powerlifting helped that, because it's a very particular sport.
22:05
It's kind of like fiber arts.
22:07
When you start it, y- it takes over everything, and that really taught me discipline and focus, and you need to go to bed early because you're gonna have a training.
22:16
And you need to eat right because you wanna have enough protein to be able to have a good workout.

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