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Turning sheets into rope...

10/7/2017

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One of the aspects of my work is to upscale and bring to life again crafts of our grandmothers. This rope is being made by finger-knitting, and I'm going to be turning 7 super-king sheets into 70m of stretchy rope. This will then create a spiral roof on the temple I am helping build for YOUtopia in San Diego. 

The bigger idea was to do a giant crochet/tatting pattern, but my dyslexia stops me from being able to do the counting that is necessary. Plus the roof is not going to be a flat circle, but an awkward shape that slopes. Tatting patterns demand uniformity, so I thought it safer just to create a rope and make up a pattern when we put it up. Making things at distance is tricky! I haven't touched the infrastructure I'm hanging this art off, and won't until it's time to install, so I'm making things loose so they can fit.

Now you may wonder why I would go to all the effort to make something like this. Why spend hours making something I could buy that was pretty and less effort? Well, the answer is I want to hand make it. I believe there is something special about the love and intention you can put into hand making something. And I believe standing under a web of hand made rope will be something special indeed.

Plus it's cheap! And sustainable! As I use 2nd hand sheets. This part of the art installation will cost a grand total of NZ$20.

When I get back to Sydney I would dearly love to make a proper giant tatting roof. But I know I can not do it on my own! So if you would like to join me, please let me know!
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    ​Hannah is a an artist inspired by the crafts and works of her ancestors, whose lineage reaches back to the cotton mills of Manchester, UK, and were pioneers in New Zealand 4 generations ago. 
    ​Hannah is named after her Great Great Grandmother Hannah, and Great Grandmother Margaret, and all the women in this line have made things from cloth as part of their spiritual work.

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