lasting impressions
last year during Saltaire ArtsWeek we took part in Lasting Impressions
as participants we were given a square of unbaked porcelaine clay and made an impression from our clothing on it - and one of the helpers made a gold or silver cross-stitch on the clothing
- also we were asked to write some information about the item we took the impression from
each square had an identifying number and they were all placed in drawers in numerical order - mine was 66, middle of the top row, mick's was 67 (not shown)
this continued over three days and at the end of the event all the squared were fired
this year the project continued, and luckily we were up in yorkshire so we went along
during the year claire and hannah had pondered long and hard over what the next stage would be - they seem to have focused on the wide variety of materials used in the clothing we took impressions of - so this time participants got involved in weaving strips of cloth with yarn of different materials
this time we were given the label for one of last years squares - these had been selected by hannah and claire - mine was for number 133, the impression from a child's hand knitted cardigan - the yarn had been identified a wool
the next table held all sorts of fibres in at various stages of processing - i suppose this was to illustrate the variety of sources and processes involved
next was a suspended array of yarns, natural and synthetic where we found the type identified on our label - the wool yarn was a bit itchier than i would have liked to wear - we cut a length of about 2m ........
where i was helped to weave the wool into a section of an ongoing strip - the rest was woven from other people's yarns and the labels were attached to each section
when it comes off the loom it will be added to the other bands made on other days and looms
the final step was to replace the impressed porcelaine in it's drawer, beside all the others
now we wait and see what hannah and claire will decide to do next
as participants we were given a square of unbaked porcelaine clay and made an impression from our clothing on it - and one of the helpers made a gold or silver cross-stitch on the clothing
- also we were asked to write some information about the item we took the impression from
each square had an identifying number and they were all placed in drawers in numerical order - mine was 66, middle of the top row, mick's was 67 (not shown)
this continued over three days and at the end of the event all the squared were fired
this year the project continued, and luckily we were up in yorkshire so we went along
during the year claire and hannah had pondered long and hard over what the next stage would be - they seem to have focused on the wide variety of materials used in the clothing we took impressions of - so this time participants got involved in weaving strips of cloth with yarn of different materials
this time we were given the label for one of last years squares - these had been selected by hannah and claire - mine was for number 133, the impression from a child's hand knitted cardigan - the yarn had been identified a wool
the next table held all sorts of fibres in at various stages of processing - i suppose this was to illustrate the variety of sources and processes involved
next was a suspended array of yarns, natural and synthetic where we found the type identified on our label - the wool yarn was a bit itchier than i would have liked to wear - we cut a length of about 2m ........
........and moved along to the looms
where i was helped to weave the wool into a section of an ongoing strip - the rest was woven from other people's yarns and the labels were attached to each section
when it comes off the loom it will be added to the other bands made on other days and looms
the final step was to replace the impressed porcelaine in it's drawer, beside all the others
now we wait and see what hannah and claire will decide to do next
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