There's nothing like learning a new skill to make life exciting again. I'm here at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle in Maine, studying fiber craft and weaving Marianne Fairbanks an artist from the University of Wisconsin.
Today we learned how to spin wool and cotton on a spindle, make rope! and set the warp on a floor loom. Then we were all told to create a loom out of materials we found around the school in the woods etc... But we also learned about the dyes and fabrics used to spin solar collecting materials.
It was a lot in one day. My head is crammed full and I still need to go and make some drawings.
It is also Loving Day in honor of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black woman and white man in Virginia who married and challenged the anti-miscegenation laws. It went all the way to the Supreme Court and on June 12, 1967 these racist laws based on a theory that intermarriage would affect racial purity.
Today we learned how to spin wool and cotton on a spindle, make rope! and set the warp on a floor loom. Then we were all told to create a loom out of materials we found around the school in the woods etc... But we also learned about the dyes and fabrics used to spin solar collecting materials.
It was a lot in one day. My head is crammed full and I still need to go and make some drawings.
It is also Loving Day in honor of Mildred and Richard Loving, a black woman and white man in Virginia who married and challenged the anti-miscegenation laws. It went all the way to the Supreme Court and on June 12, 1967 these racist laws based on a theory that intermarriage would affect racial purity.
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