threads of time - 11

after finishing the stitching of my  "doodle cloth" i realised that i had made a fundamental slip up ...... i hadn't thought through the hanging - my excuse is that there wasn't really a design process involved here as it was only meant as a doodle cloth - bit it has given me another challenge which i think i have resolved

i wanted to include a reference to tally sticks somewhere, another way of recording information and passing it on - it was beginning to look as though i would have to drop the idea as they could look rather as though they were a late add-on - but i started working on some bits of wood anyway, as a distraction, and it gave me a chance to get out some tools

after a few experiments i have found a way of using some of my sticks for hanging the doodle cloth:










while i was stitching i also remembered hearing about quipu - there's another form of record keeping i'd like to explore ........ another time maybe

Comments

Mo Crow saidā€¦
love the way you marked the wood and the beads refer back to an abacus & re the link to the quipu, that line drawing is is fabulous!

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