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testing the guard. Lifting the safety guard operates a cam switch that inhibits or stops the beam motor and brings the motor brake on. I'm using a temporary orange drive belt on the measuring roller, and at 300 metres per minute, feel that eye protection is sensible
Hi Flickr friends! I haven't been doing photography while I've been having foot surgery and recovering, twice. It's going to be a long year. So I've been drawing on an iPad instead, and this is that. I hope you like them, they are saving my sanity.
Nasca, Mantle ("The Paracas Textile"), 100-300 C.E., cotton, camelid fiber, 58-1/4 x 24-1/2 inches / 148 x 62.2 cm, found south coast, Paracas, Peru (Brooklyn Museum)
These lovely textiles belong to the women who were preparing lunch at one of the food stalls near the monument to the Battle of Ayacucho in south-central Peru.
The women use them as backpacks: they load whatever they wish to carry in them then pull the ends over their shoulders and tie them together around their necks.
This is certainly an attractive alternative to rip-stop ballistic nylon or Chinese-made plastic carriers decorated with images such as Disney princesses.
Near Ayacucho, Peru.
Oakbrook IL, Apple iPhone
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"Špalek's department store"
Built 1911 by architect Vladimír Fultner for the textile merchant Václav J. Špalek. Fultner (ne Vaclav) was born in 1887 in Hradec and began his career building for his uncle. His promising career was cut short when he was conscripted into the armed forces; He died in a military hospital in Zagreb 2 October 1918, as the empire was collapsing.
Businessman Václav J. Špalek was the owner of a house on a plot of land on the corner of Velké náměstí and Klicperova Street, which burned down in July 1910. Špalek approached architect Vladimír Fultner with a request for a new design. Due to the narrow original medieval plot, Fultner decided to orient the main façade of the new building not to the square, but to Klicperova Street. The side two-tower façade was then directed to the square, significantly exceeding the surrounding buildings. Fultner's design was criticized both by the Hradec branch of the Club for Old Prague and by architect Jan Kotěra, who considered the proportions of the building to be disproportionate. The mayor of the town, František Ulrich, supported Fultner's proposal, but in the second version of the design from 1911, selected objections were addressed: for example, some vertical elements (corner gable) were removed and the façade acquired a more horizontal character. The new architectural design also contained fewer decorative elements, which was based not only on public criticism, but also on Fultner's inclination towards sober modernism
declared a cultural monument in 1958
It is interesting that although the house has been referred to as a department store since its inception, it has always been primarily a residential building, where only its premises on the ground floor and first floor were used for commerce.
Klicperova 141 facing Velké náměstí
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Beautiful textiles with a smile.....this young lady saw me coming...I was cornered, or was I ;-))
Did I buy...of course ;-)
The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries, cartoon Paris, woven Southern Netherlands), 1495–1505, wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts, 368.3 x 401.3 cm (The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Nice detail of textile that i took from famous traditional textile shop. It gave me wonderful result that I didn't expect. Enjoy!
Was an amazing explore of The Little Textile Factory. There is so much to see. Thanks to everyone involved for this very exciting urbex adventure
.....somewhere in Saxony. The picture ist taken analogue, with my medium format camera on Kodak film.
Fuji GX 680 III // Kodak Ektar 100
Like many textile artists I find that if I produce items for sale, the cost of production (which includes the time dyeing the fabric, painting the image and then stitching and assembling) rarely results in an economic price. This is one of the reasons why I don't often make things to sell.
In a fit of madness I have agreed to do an exhibition where I am required to do just that.
I took the decision to make just a few items which is why I have been happily making rather large and elaborate pin cushions. These will have to be priced realistically, so in order to have some pieces which will be more affordable I have copied the image of Margaret Thatcher from a previous pin cushion and transfered the image using T shirt transfer paper. This means that I can produce smaller and more easily assembled items and thus charge less. One down and three to go, and already I'm bored ( and it shows). There is no pleasure in mass production which is why I avoid it at all costs.