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 said…
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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