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Heaven & Earth
My dear Iris, I wish you all the best for your birthday.
I wish happiness, health ...
Lots of energy and strength to overcome the difficulties of the life ..
May all your dreams and wishes come true ...
I wish ... you can always stand between heaven and earth, the feet on the ground, the head in the sky ...
This are my symbols for your picture: The grain, our Mother Earth, without which we can not live, the "growth" - in the sky. And the interweaving, the connection between heaven and earth ... that make us to a true human !
I feel deepest respect to you .. you manage your life so good ... you know why ...
Iris stay as you are, you get your humour, your openness, your spirit ...
I send you too:
6 pieces, no better 8 Schwarzwälder Torte
100 Candels
3,5 Schnitzel
5 Bottles champagne - CHEERS!!! ...
... and my best wishes :):):)
Love
Ice Cream Renate :)
from IK summer 2006
yarn: Novita Bambu (68& bamboo 32%cotton) 185 g
needles: 3,5 mm circ.
modifications: five lotus lace repeats on body instead of four and eyelets for satin ribbon.
Excerpt from rom.on.ca:
Look beyond fashion and explore the endless possibilities that come from interweaving design, art, and technology in Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion.
The exhibition explores the extraordinary designs of Dutch couturier, Iris van Herpen, through her 2008-2015 collections that push the boundaries of traditional fashion and craftsmanship.
Excerpt from irisvanherpen.com:
HYBRID HOLISM – The project Hylozoic Ground by the Canadian architect and artist Philip Beesley provided the inspiration for this collection. Hylozoic refers to Hylozoism, the ancient belief that all matter is in some sense alive.
Beesley created a responsive architectural system that uses hylozoism in a quite specific way, that is, “we are working with subtle materials, electricity and chemistry, weaving together interactions that at first create an architecture that simulates life but increasingly these interactions are starting to act like life, like some of the ingredients of life”. His environment breathes, shifts and moves in relationship to people walking through it, touching it, and sensing it. Microprocessors invest that environment with a primitive or insect-like intelligence like a coral reef or a great swarm.Iris van Herpen is intrigued by these kinds of possibilities for a future of fashion that might take on quite unimaginable shapes. Fashion that might be partly alive and growing, and, therefore, existing partly independent from us, which in turn allows for a new treatment by humans: instead of discarding the fashion after use, we cherish, value, and maintain it in its abilities to change constantly. Van Herpen’s translated this future vision in a collection that is highly complex and incredibly diverse in terms of shape, structure, and material. For one design, the ‘cathedral dress’ Van Herpen introduced a technique referred to as mammoth stereolithography which refers to a 3D printing method. This 3D printed process is built slice by slice from bottom to top, in a vessel of polymer that hardens when struck by a laser beam.
Blogged here. Knit with Jaeger Merino Aran in cream. A very straight foward knit and oh so wearable.
“A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.”
(Vincent van Gogh - Dutch Painter, 1853-1890)
This is a picture of a young weaver with his hand loom machine, it was shot in a worshop which is manufacturing silk fabrics that we use in our collections.
This place is located in one of the Muslim areas of Varanasi (Benaras) where there is a tradition for artcrafts which is transmitted from generations to generations.
This ancient knowledge is the pride of the Eternal City as Banarsi brocades and jaquards are known all over the world.
Those words by Van Gogh are echoing in this workshop, in addition I would say that those manual lanborers are following the customs and the practice of this heritage because they know that their fathers couldn’t leave them anything wrong or unsafe.
This is why they feel how things should go...
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«What is, actually, an aura? A strange interweaving of place and time: a unique sensation was given, no matter how close the subject in question is. To glance during the summer midday rest along the mountain ridge on the horizon or branch, in the shadow of which rested, while the moment or hour is involved in their appearance, is to breathe the aura of these mountains, this branch. The desire to bring things closer to themselves, or rather, to the masses, is the same passionate desire of modern people, as well as overcoming the unique in any situation through its reproduction. From day to day, the need to own an object in its immediate vicinity in its depiction, rather in reproduction, is becoming increasingly overwhelming.»
A Brief History of Photography Benjamin Walter
The wonder faces of wire art sculpture. 4 view still life photography.
In my wire sculptures I use a combination of very different techniques and processes.
They are, for example, interlacing and rolling in a single thread directly, by interweaving the threads leaving the negative space as dominant, sometimes the modeling is combined with pliers.
I will be pleased to present a summary of both concrete examples of these sculptures as well as a summary of procedure and associations to the varied traditions of contemporary trends that nurture and inspire this extraordinary art where hands with few complements are the main tool of course The capacity of one's creation.
I also invite you if you have the opportunity to visit Mojácar pueblo or the privileged to live here or in this extraordinary region to visit my art studio, a place open to true dialogue and cultural exchange.
From April there will be frequent open days but can also be visited by appointment.Ideal to leave the daily or forced visits to the dentist and other 'more necessary' but certainly less original chores.
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En mis esculturas de alambre utilizo una combinación de técnicas y procesos muy variados.
Van, por ejemplo, del entrelazado y el enrollar en un solo hilo de manera directa, al entretejer los hilos dejando como dominante el espacio negativo en algunas ocasiones se combina el modelar con alicates .
Tendré el placer de ir presentando un resumen tanto de ejemplos concretos de estas esculturas así como un resumen de procedimiento y asociaciones a las variadas tradiciones tendencias contemporáneas que nutren e inspiran este extraordinario arte donde las manos con pocos complementos son la principal herramienta unidos por supuesto a la capacidad de la propia creación .
Les invito también si tienen la oportunidad de visitar Mojácar pueblo o el privilegiado de vivir aquí o en esta extraordinaria región a visitar mi Estudio de arte, un lugar abierto al verdadero dialogo e intercambio cultural .
A partir del mes de abril habrá frecuentes jornadas puertas abiertas pero también se puede visitar con cita previa.Ideal para salir de lo cotidiano o de las visitas obligadas al dentista y otro menesteres 'mas necesarios" pero por seguro, menos originales .
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Estudio de Arte / Atelier Studio ff mendoza
Mojacar /04638/ Almeria
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Visits are always welcome in the frequent open days.Also by appointment or when you go through the studio if I am in that moment.
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Las visitas son siempre bienvenidas en las frecuentes jornadas de puertas abiertas.Tambien por cita previa o cuando pasen por el estudio si estoy en ese momento .
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Les visiteurs sont toujours les bienvenus dans les fréquents journées portes ouvertes.
Aussi sur rendez-vous ou en passant par l'étude si je suis à ce moment-là.
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This is a community arts studio that allows the interweaving of four themes:
Community
Education
Culture
Environment
For that reason it deserves a slightly more artistic treatment than normal.
pattern: Babette Blanket
yarn: Koigu KPM
hook: 3.5mm/squares, 2.75mm/border
pattern source: Interweave Crochet, Spring 2006
This photo appears on page 96 of Interweave Felt 2008! The snails are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. Info here: foxglove-womble.com/fria/fblog/?p=227
“What is, actually, an aura? A strange interweaving of place and time: a unique sensation was given, no matter how close the subject in question is. To glance during the summer midday rest along the mountain ridge line on the horizon or branch, in the shadow of which rested, while the moment or hour is involved in their appearance, means breathing the aura of these mountains, this branch. The desire to bring things closer to themselves, or rather, to the masses, is the same passionate desire of modern people, as well as overcoming the unique in any situation through its reproduction. From day to day, the need to own an object in its immediate vicinity in its depiction, rather in reproduction, is becoming increasingly overwhelming.”
A brief history of photography Benjamin Walter
Story about this Landscape Winter Photography
Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea captured August 14, 2011.
At times nature exceeds the ability of the artist’s brush to blend brilliant colors, interweave textures and combine patterns to create stunning panoramas, while using only the palette of land, water, cloud and vegetation. This stunning and artistic image of a phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea was by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite was captured on August 14, 2011.
The peacock-hued swirls of blues and green that paint the navy-blue sea water are created by light reflecting off of millions of phytoplankton, microscopic plants that grow in the sunlit surface water of the world’s oceans. Different types of phytoplankton reflect different colored light, so a multi-color bloom such as this typically contains multiple species. The depth of the bloom also affects coloration – the deeper the organism, the less light is reflected and the duller the color.
Coccolithophores, a type of phytoplankton which flourish in nutrient-poor, sub-polar waters, have unique limestone (calcite) scales. This white coating makes the plant highly reflective, and thus a bloom can appear to be a bright, almost iridescent blue. The chalky coating can also cause whitish swirls in the water, making the blues washed out with a milky hue.
August is a highly active month for phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea, but the timing, development, abundance and species composition is variable in this area. The distribution of phytoplankton is largely controlled by the polar front, ice cover, freshwater runoff and ice melting. Each water source – the Artic, the Atlantic and the coastal water – all bring their own characteristic species into the Barents Sea, creating a multi-specie and multi-color spectacle.
Because phytoplankton are the base of the marine food chain, places were blooms are large and frequent often support a thriving marine population. This is certainly the case in the Barents Sea where the fisheries, particularly the cod fisheries, are of great importance for both Norway and Russia.
The coastlines of both of these countries can be seen in the bottom of the image. Russia forms the south-eastern most coast, while the remaining three-quarters of the coastline belongs to Norway. Two fjords in the west, Porsangerfjorden and Laksefjord are tinted bright blue with phytoplankton. Just to the east of these fjords, freshwater from the Tana River flows through Tanafjord, turning the waters here are a duller blue. As fresh water flows into the Barents Sea, phytoplankton bloom is affected by the flowing water, creating paisley-like patterns in the coastal eddies.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team
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pattern : Midwest Moonlight from "Scarf Style" (Interweave press)
yarn : Laine Cachemire - Phildar (85% wool - 15% cashmere) - 6 balls of 25 g
4mm needles
it was so long to knit.. but i'm in love with the result! The scarf is sweet, warm, stylish. Perfect because before that i had only a old beginner stockinette scarf ;-)
The 107 is one of those routes that's greatly influenced by having variations around school times, not only through its timetable and route (such as the existence of the 106) but also its daily allocation of vehicles and how the running boards interweave 107 journeys with school routes in Lincoln and Gainsborough.
After the morning peak, the route settles down to having one decker going back and forth between Gainsborough and Lincoln on a two hourly basis. Things start to get exciting again for the 14:05 departure from Gainsborough, however, as a different vehicle will run this journey. Once it gets to Lincoln at about 14:50, instead of running a 15:05 back to Gainsborough (there is no 15:05 107), it stays at Lincoln and then does school route 573.
After that it's unclear what the vehicle does, as although the 573 finishes at Bracebridge, the Bustimes tracker clearly shows that they then run up through the city to the Showground, before doubling back and heading off on what I assume is a lengthy deadrun to Gainsborough. Occasionally the bus that's just worked the 573 returns to Gainsborough via the 17:35 107 departure from Lincoln, although usually that run is covered by the bus that arrives into Lincoln on the 354. Yet some days they seem to swap, for whatever reason.
Anyway, this is all a very long winded way of putting that you get an extra roll of the dice when it comes to what vehicle will turn up on the 14:05 107 off Gainsborough - which is useful if the 'regular' 107 that day is a boring vehicle and waiting for whatever turns up on the afternoon 106 or 354 is unfeasible because it will be dark by then. And nobody cares except me. Probably.
I've never really exploited this mid-afternoon random decker generator until now; mainly because I hadn't looked into the specifics of what each 107 runs onto before and because half the time they stick a purple MMC on it, which I don't care about when I'm looking for a Local liveried Plaxton President. And because, like I mentioned above, it's the only afternoon 107 that produces a different vehicle in what's currently daylight hours.
Here on 10.11.22, President 18024 is seen on St Mary's Street, having just worked the 14:05 Gainsborough to Lincoln. Cutting out the bus station due to no passengers being left onboard, it's now displaying Not in Service as it heads off to Lincoln depot, where it will wait until it is time to set off on the 573.
TL;DR - 14:05 107 towards Lincoln does funky stuff. Therefore I like it.
German postcard by Edgar Medien AG, no. 6.689. Image: Buena Vista / Miramax. Rosario Dawson in Sin City (Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino (special guest director), Robert Rodriguez, 2005). Caption: Shall we go to me?
Sin City (2005), also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is an American Neo-Noir film produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, with Quentin Tarantino as "special guest director". The live-action film is based on Frank Miller's graphic novel series of the same name that won the Eisner Award.
Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history,Sin City (2005) paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity through the eyes of its roughest characters. Much of this violent Neo-Noir is based on the first, third, and fourth books in creator Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about ex-convict Marv (Mickey Rourke) who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer. The Big Fat Kill follows photographer Dwight (Clive Owen), who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police, and the mob. That Yellow Bastard focuses on an aging police officer (Bruce Willis) who protects a young woman (Jessica Alba) from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story 'The Customer is Always Right' which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. Three directors received credit for Sin City: Miller, Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, the last for directing the drive-to-the-pits scene in which Dwight talks with a dead Jack Rafferty (Benicio del Toro). Miller and Rodriguez worked as a team directing the rest of the film.
Sin City (2005) stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Carla Gugino, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, and Makenzie Vega among others. Several of the scenes were shot before any actor had signed on; as a result, several stand-ins were used before the actual actors were digitally added into the film during post-production. Rodriguez, an aficionado of cinematic technology, has used similar techniques in the past. The film was noted throughout production for Rodriguez's plan to stay faithful to the source material, unlike most other comic book adaptations. Rodriguez stated that he considered the film to be "less of an adaptation than a translation". As a result, there is no screenwriting in the credits; simply "Based on the graphic novels by Frank Miller".
Sin City (2005) opened to wide critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing which rendered most of the film in black and white while retaining or adding color for selected objects. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's "visual shaping". Jeremy Wheeler at AllMovie: "As far as comic adaptations go, Sin City is an unprecedented book-to-screen translation that's locked, loaded, and rip-roaring ready to introduce movie audiences to the mad genius that is Frank Miller. " Roger Ebert awarded the film 4/4 stars, describing it as "a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant" and "This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids. It contains characters who occupy stories, but to describe the characters and summarize the stories would be like replacing the weather with a weather map." The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis gave credit for Rodriguez's "scrupulous care and obvious love for its genre influences", but noted that "it's a shame the movie is kind of a bore" because the director's vision seems to prevail on the intensity of reading a graphic novel. Sin City grossed $29.1 million on its opening weekend, defeating fellow opener Beauty Shop by more than twice its opening take. The film saw a sharp decline in its second weekend, dropping over 50%. Ultimately, the film ended its North American run with a gross of $74.1 million against its $40 million negative cost. Overseas, the film grossed $84.6 million, for a worldwide total from theater receipts of $158.7 million. A sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, was released in 2014, also directed by Miller and Rodriguez. It was a critical and financial failure.
Sources: Roger Ebert, Jeremy Wheeler (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Pattern: Babette Blanket by Kathy Merrick
Yarn: Patons Diploma Gold DK
Hook: 3.5mm
Gift for a friend's baby.
Gif Shake effect 777x779 21 M
Das Ich und das Es
Oil on Linen
Plywood support
W x H (“) 36 x 36
Das Ich und das Es series
This work is painted in expressionistic gestural technique. Brush strokes interweave colors with lines creating many obscure figures. Gradually images appear to surprise with discoveries. The flowing contours foster fantasy, in which the content of the work melts away, seems to be modulated to subtle stirrings of the artist’s vision. Among seven images there is a man brandishing a knife. This image might signify a subconscious liberation that is found at the origins of art where a violent struggle asserts an idea of ideally free self once it has to engage with the world around it (Laocoon), and a conflict becomes condition of existence.
The life on an artist is much like a moment of fact and fiction.
Das Ich und das Es (The Id and the Ego) might be inspired by the artist’s interest in a condition between reality and fantasy, a result of creative process that is much like a lucid controlled daydreaming.
The painting traps an eye by entangled lines; speedy brushwork, overlapping silhouettes, and brisk exhilarating color developments.
Knowing that the picture is a flat surface, somewhat abstract, the viewer could feel a powerful effect in “Das Ich und das Es” of breaking away from two-dimensional surface and almost a hallucinatory after effect. It happens because our sight through rapid observation discovers and takes not one thing at a time but infinity of forms, colors, and movements. It happens of course because the artist at a starting point of his work could foresee all-at-once and was able to bring the vision to existence on a canvas.
You will not contemplate this painting on same level in time.
It is more like listening to music through a pair of stereo headphones. Everyone knows and heard sound as if it emanated from a point directly above the head.
This occurs even though the listener knows that sound from each speaker is entering ear on the head’s opposite side.
Contemplating this painting is like a hearing process when each of our ears listens to the same sounds; however each takes in auditory information from a different point in space. Again this distance between our ears, though small, is enough to create a third dimension of sound that we perceive as depth.
Same way a new dimension could appear in the work called Das Ich und das Es when the eyes are trapped by entangled lines, speedy brushwork and mysteriously developing silhouettes of picture’s not yet analyzed intrigue.
Apart from Reincarnation series Jaisini painted other works that are inspired by his interest in Eastern philosophy.
Das Ich und das Es painting had alternative title while in a process of creation that was “Dream or Real”.
Perhaps the original inspiration derived from a philosophical proverb Jaisini applied to his artistic vision, “I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man” of Chuang Tse 369-286 BC.
The condition between reality and dream of someone who strongly holds on to reality who cannot relax even while sleeping is reflected by personal creativity. For Jaisini reality is mixed with fantasy, as a result of being creative artist whose work is much like a daydreaming.
Das Ich und das Es painting slides between phenomenology of line fluidity with a level of Pirandellian deconstruction-reconstruction concept.
The moment of fact and fiction, dream and undream.
DIundE
Fallacy, a pretence; interweave your lies in my mind, promise me I'm fine, hold my hand and close your eyes - with fingers crossed you're blindly lying. Heavy hearts and heavy minds, the after effects; what you left behind. This is who I am. This is who you are. It took me so long to realise, but now you can't even look me in the eye.
Coward.
Yess, to get the anger out somewhere. Oh flickr, you're very useful.
Today was...ugh. I don't even care any more, I'm going to be honest, but seeing him with someone else after just a week was like a nice sharp slap in the face. Who are you?
And not being told by anyone involved, but a friend who saw them together...nooooo. I need to shut up on flickr. I do. But gaaah! Honestly. It's fine though, I'm over him. Like, over him. Anyone who can justify getting with someone else a week later because they had 'nothing to get over' doesn't deserve the satisfaction of seeing you upset. Maybe I was naive, and it was going on before that, I've had many people come up to me and say that that's the case. Considering how many people I've told (3), a hell of a lot of people have come up to me and told me they know. Yaay! People talking about you behind your back. Always good.
Solomon's knot (Latin: sigillum Salomonis, literally 'Solomon's seal') is a traditional decorative motif used since ancient times, and found in many cultures. Despite the name, it is classified as a link, and is not a true knot according to the definitions of mathematical knot theory.
The Solomon's knot consists of two closed loops, which are doubly interlinked in an interlaced manner. If laid flat, the Solomon's knot is seen to have four crossings where the two loops interweave under and over each other. This contrasts with two crossings in the simpler Hopf link.
In most artistic representations, the parts of the loops that alternately cross over and under each other become the sides of a central square, while four loopings extend outward in four directions. The four extending loopings may have oval, square, or triangular endings, or may terminate with free-form shapes such as leaves, lobes, blades, wings etc.
The Solomon's knot often occurs in ancient Roman mosaics, usually represented as two interlaced ovals.
Across the Middle East, historical Islamic sites show Solomon's knot as part of Muslim tradition. It appears over the doorway of an early twentieth century CE mosque/madrasa in Cairo. Two versions of Solomon's knot are included in the recently excavated Yattir Mosaic in Jordan. To the east, it is woven into an antique Central Asian prayer rug. To the west, Solomon's knot appeared in Moorish Spain, and it shines in leaded glass windows in a late twentieth century CE mosque in the United States. The British Museum, London, England has a fourteenth-century CE Egyptian Qur'an with a Solomon's Knot as its frontispiece.
University of California at Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural History, USA has a large African collection that includes nineteenth and twentieth century CE Yoruba glass beadwork crowns and masks decorated with Solomon's Knots.
Home of Peace Mausoleum, a Jewish Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA has multiple images of Solomon's knot in stone and concrete bas reliefs sculpted 1934 CE.
Saint Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, "Byzantine District" of Los Angeles, California, USA has an olive wood Epitaphios (bier for Christ) with Solomon's knots carved at each corner. The Epitaphios is used in the Greek Easter services.
Powell Library University of California at Los Angeles, USA has ceiling beams in the Main Reading Room covered with Solomon's Knots. Built in 1926 CE, the reading room also features a central Dome of Wisdom bordered by Solomon's knots.
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In Latin, this configuration was sometimes known as sigillum Salomonis, meaning literally "seal of Solomon". It was associated with the Biblical monarch Solomon because of his reputation for wisdom and knowledge (and in some legends, his occult powers). This phrase is usually rendered into English as "Solomon's knot", since "seal of Solomon" has other conflicting meanings (often referring to either a Star of David or pentagram). In the study of ancient mosaics, the Solomon's knot is often known as a "guilloche knot" or "duplex knot", while a Solomon's knot in the center of a decorative configuration of four curving arcs is known as a "pelta-swastika" (where pelta is Latin for "shield").
Among other names currently in use are the following:
"Foundation Knot" applies to the interweaving or interlacing which is the basis for many elaborate Celtic designs, and is used in the United States in crochet and macramé patterns.
"Imbolo" describes the knot design on the textiles of the Kuba people of Congo.
"Nodo di Salomone" is the Italian term for Solomon's Knot, and is used to name the Solomon's Knot mosaic found at the ruins of a synagogue at Ostia, the ancient seaport for Rome.
Since the knot has been used across a number of cultures and historical eras, it can be given a range of symbolic interpretations.
Because there is no visible beginning or ending, it may represent immortality and eternity—as does the more complicated Buddhist Endless Knot.
Because the knot seems to be two entwined figures, it is sometimes interpreted as a Lover's Knot, although that name may indicate another knot.
Because of religious connections, the knot is sometimes designated the all-faith symbol of faith, but, at the same time, it appears in many places as a valued secular symbol of prestige, importance, beauty.
Solomon's Knot appears on tombstones and mausoleums in Jewish graveyards and catacombs in many nations. In this context, Solomon's Knot is currently interpreted to symbolize eternity.
Some seek to connect it with Solomon by translating the Hebrew word peka'im (פקעים) found in the Bible at I Kings 6:18 and I Kings 7:24 as meaning "knobs" or "knots", and interpreting it to refer to Solomon's knot; however, the more accepted modern translation of this word is "gourd-shaped ornaments".
In Africa, Solomon's knot is found on glass beadwork, textiles, and carvings of the Yoruba people. When the knot appears in this culture, it often denotes royal status; thus, it is featured on crowns, tunics, and other ceremonial objects. Also in Africa, the Knot is found on Kasai velvet, the raffia woven cloth of the Kuba people. They attribute mystical meaning to it, as do the Akan people of West Africa who stamp it on their sacred Adinkra cloth. In the Adinkra symbol system, a version of Solomon's knot is the Kramo-bone symbol, interpreted as meaning "one being bad makes all appear to be bad".
In Latvia, when Solomon's knot is used on textiles and metal work, it is associated with time, motion, and the powers of ancient pagan gods.
In modern science, some versions of the conventionalized sign for an atom (electrons orbiting a nucleus) are variations of Solomon's knot. The logo of the Joomla software program is a Solomon's knot.
Pattern source: Interweave Knits winter 2004 / Evelyn A. Clark
Yarn: Regia Silk
Needles: 2,75 mm
Shoes: Camper Minie :-D
An abstract sculpture composed of thick interweaving of steel.
The dynamism of the forms and the tension of the volumes floating in height embody the vital energy of the wind frozen in full motion.
The choice of stainless steel allows the sculpture to reveal itself according to the lights that spouts out on its surface.
Stainless Steel Sculpture
Genève ⇀ Quai du Seujet
Pattern name: Saffron Cables (by Kathy Zimmerman, Interweave Knits Fall 2006)
Yarn: Patons Shetland Chunky in Aran
Knit using US size 9 circulars (47" length)
Interweave Crochet 2004 Summer Issue. I was adjusting a neck line.
7 1/2 balls of Organic Cotton (Philip Yarn)
Greek Pullover by Sharon Shoji (Interweave Knits, Fall 2005) - size 38
Kid Classic (Rowan) colorway Iced Jade, 5 balls
I made the body 5 cm=2” longer (before the decreases).
I'm not sure about it... Perhaps it's more flattering on a smaller bust...
Lamely not blogged yet.
Cobblestone by Jared Flood
Interweave Knits Fall 2007
Classic Elite '03 Tweed and handspun Hello Yarn Fiber Club Mollusc Wensleydale yarn
Knit for me, including modified waist shaping. I made Mr. HelloYarn wear it for this photo.