Today I learned how to weave a basket. Yesterday I learned how to make a rope. All you need to make a basket is rope or structure you can coil and something to weave into it. Basic, basic techniques which then can be translated in so many dimensions - really large, unusual materials, tiny and delicate. You can make nests and vessels and houses and urns. Containers. I am overjoyed.
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| Nested in Laurel by Matt Tomme |
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| Pauite water basket from 1900 Southwest desert |
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Japanese Ikebana bamboo sculpture
But I also went to the Fabrication Lab to talk to the technician about recreating things made in the weaving studio. So exciting to learn that you can scan an object and print it out exactly in a polymer plastic.
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Exciting things to come.
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