# Retifist
> Latex garment-making tutorials, patterns, and technique — SFW educational hub.

## Pages
- [About](https://retifist.com/llms/about/index.md): What retifist.com is, and who Retifist is.
- [Downloads](https://retifist.com/llms/downloads/index.md): PDF pattern packets and Clo3D natural rubber sheet fabric presets.
- [Retifist](https://retifist.com/llms/index.md)
- [Lessons](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/index.md): Tutorial collections for Retifist latex craft education.
- [00 — Prep, materials, and safety](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/00-prep-materials-safety.md): Materials kit, bow pattern prep, small-desk setup, and basic solvent safety before glue.
- [01 — Bow on strap — real-time glue](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/01-bow-on-strap.md): Cut and glue the bow pattern with live curl waits; strap loop with no fasteners.
- [02 — Boot sock pattern](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/02-boot-sock-pattern.md): Measure a platform heel and draft paper pattern versions for the basic shoe sock.
- [03 — Boot sock cut and glue](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/03-boot-sock-cut-glue.md): Transfer the sock pattern to rubber, assemble seams, and do a first fit on the shoe.
- [04 — Pattern fit adjustment](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/04-pattern-fit-adjustment.md): Diagnose first-fit issues and run one revise → re-fit cycle.
- [05 — Paneling stripe](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/05-paneling-stripe.md): Add a contrast color panel to the fitted sock pattern.
- [06 — Appliqué flame](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/06-applique-flame.md): Add a decorative flame appliqué with bubble-aware glue technique.
- [07 — Inner heel fasteners](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/07-inner-heel-fasteners.md): Optional Kam-snaps or short zipper at the inner heel gap.
- [Start Small](https://retifist.com/llms/lessons/start-small/index.md): Series 1 — desk-scale latex sock over a platform heel.
- [Links](https://retifist.com/llms/links/index.md): Retifist social and contact links — SFW exits and NSFW-marked outbound.
- [Adhesion and Peel Test Methods](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/adhesion-peel-test-methods.md): How peel and adhesion tests are named, what the number measures, and what has to be written beside it.
- [Allergy and Skin Contact](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/allergy-and-skin-contact.md): Type I protein vs Type IV chemical reactions, and what labels do and do not mean. Literacy, not medical advice.
- [Body-region pressure sensitivity](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/body-region-pressure-sensitivity.md): Acuity, pressure-pain threshold, and preferred clothing pressure are three different body maps. Do not average them for garment fit.
- [Simulating NR sheet in Clo3D](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/clo3d-material-simulation.md): How this repo models calendered NR sheet in Clo3D, including physical parameters, render setup, file workflows, and simulation limits.
- [Compatibility Matrix: Metals, Oils, Plastics, and Skin Products](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/compatibility-matrix-metals-oils-plastics.md): Never, avoid, conditional, and acceptable ratings for metals, oils, plastics, and skin products contacting natural rubber.
- [Literature Reviews](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/index.md): 99% of crafters have never bothered to read these and have been just fine. Start with the executive summary.
- [Liquid Adhesives and Seam Integrity](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-adhesives-and-seam-integrity.md): Water-based latex adhesives for cast or dipped film and fabric combining. Wet vs dry, contamination, and how to read a failed join.
- [Liquid Latex Aging, Storage and Care](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-aging-storage-and-care.md): Store preserved natural-rubber latex closed and cool, away from copper and freeze, and rinse coagulant salt out of cast film.
- [Antidegradants in DIY Compounds](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-antidegradants-diy-compounds.md): You can only slow liquid-latex aging. Antioxidant bands, amine versus phenolic stain, wax bloom, and PPD for flexing ozone.
- [Chlorination for Tack Control](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-chlorination-tack-control.md): Permanent de-tack on dipped film. Aqueous halogenation, then neutralize, rinse, and dry warm.
- [Coagulant Dipping for Wearable Thickness](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-coagulant-dipping-wearable-thickness.md): Build a thicker liquid-latex film in one dip. Coagulant on the former, dwell time, wet-gel strength, leach, and humidity.
- [Decoding Liquid Latex Bottle Labels](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-decoding-bottle-labels.md): What to read on a liquid latex bottle. Ammonia, total solids, prevulcanized versus raw, and polymer family, set against marketing words.
- [Liquid Delamination and Seam Failure](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-delamination-seam-failure.md): Read a failed film join or a split between dips before you add more latex.
- [Liquid Edge Finishing Materials](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-edge-finishing-materials.md): Textile tape and aqueous latex at a liquid rim. Shrink, polarity, and drying migration.
- [Field Latex to Marketable Concentrate](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-field-latex-to-concentrate.md): Liquid pathway from preserved field latex through centrifuge, cream, or evaporation to concentrate, and what those books say a buyer receives.
- [Liquid Film Defects](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-film-defect-atlas.md): Industrial names for liquid-latex film failures. Pinholes, blown gel, humidity, webbing, and leach discoloration.
- [Forming Film from Liquid Latex](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-film-pathway.md): Liquid latex to film by dip, cast, or spread. Concentrate vs compound, vulcanization, and the industrial forming tree.
- [Latex Foam for Costume Volume](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-foam-padding.md): Liquid latex foam for costume volume: expand, hold the shape, solidify, vulcanize. Thick sections need a gel. Drying alone stays thin.
- [Former Dip, Mould Cast, and Flat Spread](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-former-dip-vs-mould-cast-vs-flat-spread.md): Liquid latex forming choices. Dipping a former, casting in a cavity, or industrial spreading, routed by geometry and gauge.
- [Gauge, Modulus, and Reduction on Cast or Dipped Film](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-gauge-modulus-reduction.md): Thickness, compound stiffness, and pattern shrink as separate fit levers on film you form from liquid latex.
- [Liquid Hardware & Metal Contact](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-hardware-metal-contact.md): Copper, brass, and galvanized contact with wet latex, leach water, and dipped or cast film.
- [Heat-Sensitized Gelation](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-heat-sensitized-gelation.md): Slush and rotational casting with heat-sensitized liquid latex. Closed-mould gel, leach, supported dry, and the handbooks' different vulcanizing temperatures.
- [The Hevea Rubber Tree](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-hevea-rubber-tree.md): What Hevea brasiliensis is, how clone names relate to latex yield, and how South American leaf blight sits on the planting map.
- [Home-Cast Latex Film](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-home-cast-film.md): Forming film from liquid latex by a glass-form spread, a conveyor, a coagulant dip, or a mould.
- [Liquid Latex–Latex Adhesion Testing](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-latex-latex-adhesion-testing.md): Peel coupons for two films made from liquid latex, and which handbook sentence the number belongs to.
- [Liquid Latex–Substrate Adhesion Testing](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-latex-substrate-adhesion-testing.md): What a liquid-latex adhesion number is attached to, the film or adhesive and the substrate in that test.
- [Liquid Latex–Textile Bonding](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-latex-textile-bonding.md): Aqueous latex on cloth. Cotton fibre ends versus smooth filaments, wet and dry combining, and factory pretreats.
- [Painting vs Compounding Pigment](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-painting-vs-compounding-pigment.md): With liquid latex, pigment goes into the natural-rubber compound, or a synthetic latex paint dries as its own coating film.
- [Pigment and Filler Compounding for Liquid Latex](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-pigment-filler-decks.md): How to tint and opacify natural-rubber latex before the film forms: dispersion prep, filler stiffness, and metal-impurity aging.
- [Plantation Tapping and Field Latex](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-plantation-tapping-field-latex.md): How plantations tap Hevea, what field latex is in the cup, and where preserve and concentrate take over.
- [Prevulcanized Consumer Latex](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-prevulcanized-consumer-latex.md): When drying can finish a prevulcanized natural-rubber film, and how to read a bottle label against the strength reports.
- [Liquid Reinforcement and Laminate Zones](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-reinforcement-laminate-zones.md): Extra strength in a dipped or spread film. Wet-gel timing, synthetic outers, and plant combining layouts.
- [Liquid Film Surface Finish](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-surface-finish-literacy.md): How dipped and cast film get gloss or matte from the former or bed, and how tack, halogenation, and wax bloom differ.
- [Synthetic Lattices: CR, NBR, and SBR](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-synthetic-lattices.md): When to dip polychloroprene or carboxylated nitrile instead of natural rubber latex, and why plain SBR is not that substitute.
- [From the Rubber Tree to Liquid Latex](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-tree-to-liquid-latex.md): Liquid pathway from field latex through preserve and concentrate, before compound and film forming.
- [Liquid Latex Ventilation and Ammonia](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-ventilation-ammonia.md): Ammonia fumes and compounding powders when you work with liquid latex. Room air, dust, and acid or alkali handling.
- [Liquid Zipper Closure Compatibility](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/liquid-zipper-closure-compatibility.md): Aqueous latex on zipper tape. Shrink, polarity, and the filament limit from cord and fabric.
- [Pattern reduction and body pressure targets](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/pattern-reduction-pressure-targets.md): How circumference reduction, gauge, and body radius set Laplace contact pressure for skintight NR sheet — Clo3D planning marks.
- [Reduction and pressure sensitivity](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/reduction-and-pressure-sensitivity.md): Combine Laplace contact pressure from pattern reduction with Scale C preferred clothing-pressure multipliers for arm-equivalent feels-like intensity.
- [Sheet Adhesives and Seam Integrity](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-adhesives-and-seam-integrity.md): Solvent cement on commercial sheet. Flash off, open time, polarity, and how to read a failed seam.
- [Sheet Aging, Storage and Care](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-aging-storage-and-care.md): Heat, light, ozone, and oils age bought sheet and finished garments. Store cool and dark. Keep petroleum off the sheet.
- [Calendered Latex Sheet](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-calendered-sheet.md): Already-formed calendered roll goods. How to read one product line: thickness, finish, cure state, and a tolerance class when the seller prints one.
- [Sheet Delamination and Seam Failure](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-delamination-seam-failure.md): Read both faces of a peeled sheet seam, then sort adhesive failure, cohesive failure, fiber-pull, and rubber-tear.
- [Sheet Edge Finishing Materials](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-edge-finishing-materials.md): NR tube, strip, or textile tape on bought sheet, in solvent rubber cement culture.
- [Buying Formed Latex Sheet](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-film-pathway.md): Commercial calendered sheet you buy already formed. How to read a thickness menu, and what you do after the sheet arrives.
- [Sheet Garment Selection QA](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-garment-selection-qa.md): Pre-wear checks on bought sheet garments: holes, powder, odor, bloom, and when to stop.
- [Gauge, Modulus, and Reduction on Bought Sheet](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-gauge-modulus-reduction.md): Thickness, inherited stiffness, and pattern shrink as separate fit levers on commercial latex sheet.
- [Sheet Hardware & Metal Contact](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-hardware-metal-contact.md): Snaps and eyelets on cut sheet: which metals to keep off the rubber, and what a brown ring means.
- [Sheet Latex–Latex Adhesion Testing](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-latex-latex-adhesion-testing.md): What a handbook peel number is attached to, and which sentences are a test of two latex sheets with solvent rubber cement.
- [Sheet Latex–Substrate Adhesion Testing](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-latex-substrate-adhesion-testing.md): What a peel number is attached to when one face is bought sheet and the other face is not latex.
- [Sheet Latex–Textile Bonding](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-latex-textile-bonding.md): Cotton vs nylon when you bond fabric to commercial sheet — fibre ends, polarity, and stretch at the lap.
- [Colored Sheet: Pigment and Filler Effects](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-pigment-filler-decks.md): What you inherit when you buy pre-colored commercial NR sheet: opacity, stiffness, set, and metal-impurity aging.
- [Printing on Latex Sheet](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-printing-surface-decoration.md): Why bought sheet latex rejects cotton inks, and how to test the face you will print.
- [Sheet Reinforcement Zones](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-reinforcement-laminate-zones.md): Where to add a disc or strip on commercial sheet while the junction is still open.
- [Sheet Surface Finish](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-surface-finish-literacy.md): Reading storage powder on bought sheet as possible wax bloom, and choosing a face to join.
- [Sheet Ventilation and Solvent Exposure](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-ventilation-solvent-exposure.md): Flammable vapor from solvent rubber cement and thinners for sheet latex. Ventilation, closed cans, and ignition control.
- [Sheet Zipper Closure Compatibility](https://retifist.com/llms/literature-reviews/sheet-zipper-closure-compatibility.md): Zipper tape, coil, and stops on bought sheet. Slick filament versus cotton, and what ASTM D2054 covers.
- [Patterns](https://retifist.com/llms/patterns/index.md): Downloadable and draftable latex pattern hubs.
- [Basic shoe sock](https://retifist.com/llms/patterns/start-small/basic-shoe-sock/index.md): Fitted latex sock pattern over a platform ankle-height heel.
- [Bow](https://retifist.com/llms/patterns/start-small/bow/index.md): Downloadable bow-on-strap pattern for the Start Small entry build.
- [Start Small patterns](https://retifist.com/llms/patterns/start-small/index.md): Bow and basic shoe sock pattern hubs.
- [Agent surface demo](https://retifist.com/llms/projects/agent-surface-demo.md): Smoke page for block math, Mermaid, video + transcript, and /llms discovery.
- [Projects](https://retifist.com/llms/projects/index.md): Searchable examples of Retifist project work and how techniques get used.
- [Safety](https://retifist.com/llms/safety/index.md): Workshop safety for rubber cement, heptane thinner, spills, and cutting.
- [1 — Glue in real time](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/1-glue-real-time.md): Technique deep-dive on real-time glue waits.
- [2 — Glue prep protocol](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/2-glue-prep-protocol.md): Mixing batches and preparing the glue zone.
- [3 — Cure timing and strength](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/3-glue-cure-timing.md): When glued seams can take handling stress.
- [4 — Heptane safety](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/4-heptane-safety.md): Extended solvent safety for longer glue sessions.
- [5 — Glue tools compared](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/5-glue-tools-compared.md): Applicators and press tools for rubber cement work.
- [6 — Shaping seams masterclass](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/6-shaping-seams-masterclass.md): Curves, flipping method, and edge-only contact.
- [7 — Seam-width lab](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/7-seam-width-lab.md): Compare seam allowances on the same toe curve.
- [Technique](https://retifist.com/llms/technique/index.md): Flat list of Retifist technique deep-dives with optional tag filter.

## Repository
- [Clone source](https://github.com/retifist/retifist.com.git): Public VitePress source for retifist.com — full page markdown under `docs/` (and site config). `/llms` stubs are discovery summaries — clone for complete source content.