{"id":5483,"date":"2014-08-26T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5483"},"modified":"2014-08-26T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:53:27","slug":"community-weaving-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/08\/community-weaving-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Weaving Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent last night tying off the remaining student squares so that I could at least begin the installation of the community weaving project today. I had no idea how long it would take. The answer to that question was about 3 hours on site, plus all my prep work.<\/p>\n

Who cares? I’m really happy with the finished product. <\/p>\n

First, with a suggestion from my Fiberarts Guild,<\/a> (thanks, ladies!) I strung the students squares like prayer flags and hung them between the Library sign and the building. Here are the first 2 rows – a total of 135 squares here.
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I still had 55 squares to go, and I couldn’t fit them here. I didn’t want to add any hooks or other hardware to the Library exterior, so I tried using a tree for one end and the flagpole holder for the other. Although that worked, I knew that the flag hitting the line every time the wind blew would not be good for either the flag or my cotton line. So I decided to put a cable staple into the corner of the building and anchored the third line to it. Here you can see all 3 lines of the little flags.<\/p>\n

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Then I had to hang the 3 banners, 1 woven at each of the concerts we held. Before I left home I had tied the banners to bamboo poles, already well weathered so they’d blend in with the trees I planned to hang them from.<\/p>\n

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They move so easily in the breeze.<\/p>\n

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I tried to capture all the weaving at once — not an easy task.<\/p>\n

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One of the goals of the project was to see if the musical genre (string quartet, rock & roll, African drums) had an impact on the colors or textures people chose to weave with. For my project, I think the answer is no, but I think that’s because only 1 or 2 people had ever woven on a loom before, so everything about it was new to them. They were focused on learning the craft, not on the music. <\/p>\n

Doesn’t matter, it was a success for introducing weaving and getting community involvement. All that’s left now is the paperwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent last night tying off the remaining student squares so that I could at least begin the installation of the community weaving project today. I had no idea how long it would take. The answer to that question was about 3 hours on site, plus all my prep work.<\/p>\n

Who cares? I’m really happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[566],"class_list":["post-5483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-community-weaving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5483\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}