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Each year the Zoo hosts its annual sheep shearing event at the Children's Zoo Family Farm.
David Melcon is the Zoo's chief sheep shearer and has been shearing the sheep for more than a decade. He's a master at his craft.
The San Francisco Zoo will send the wool to a Native American Reservation where it will be used for traditional weavings. This helps ensure the culture and rituals of weavings among the Native American tribes continues.
Plus, Urban Fauna Studio was on hand to demonstrate the wonders of working with wool though spindle spinning demonstrations, needle felting, and scarf weaving.
If you missed it this year, mark your calendar for next year!
A 0.6 oz Nordic w from Paradise fibers. It has a 10” poplar shaft and 3” diameter walnut whorl that detaches for travel.and was designed by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts created by Jiorn Piel.
Two spindles made to order for a Ravelry user. I like how the spin and weight of these two spindles are complimentary.
Al placing a Masters Division car on a set of alignment stands to accurately place the weight load on the axles before measuring and adjusting the spindle's camber.
Ormolu design on Roostery's Minorca table runner. You can also get this fabric under my design name, Ormolu, at Spoonflower.com
A walk to get the paper and have a bit of exercise, on a very dull and damp day, but enlivened by going through Hill Hook Nature Reserve. I could do with retaking some of these when there is a bit more light to allow shorter shutter speeds and better depth of field.
Seeing the spindle took me back 70 years or so, to Blacklands Copse on the Isle of Wight, which was a regular walk as a small child, and my mother taught me about spindle trees. They were never like this though, and these seem to be garden centre varieties, not the true wild spindle.
this is the lovely birthday present from my sister, my very first Bosworth spindle from Journey Wheel.
It's a Midi size Bocoto wood whorl, about 1.4 oz. It's been lovely to spin. The yarn on the spindle is a blend of merino, mohair and angora.
I bought the spindle at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in 2006 and can't for the life of remember the guys name but he's always in the main exibit hall. The distaff is made by Cascade Spindle and I bought it from The Bellwether.
Finial: Purpleheart
Shaft: Purpleheart
Whorl: Mesquite
Inlay: Russian Laquered Brooch
Weight: 1.19 oz/33 grams
Whorl Diameter: 7.5 cm
Length: 27 cm
Fiber: BFL from Fibermonster.etsy.com
Moves quick, like a spider, and loves to tear its victims apart as they burn. It is part organic and part robot, making its fierceness and precision extremely deadly.
CD spindle-trash bound ;( my recycler won't accept #5 plastic
Green Ribbon scrap
Measuring tape scrap
Vintage Rick Rack wrapper
Old thimble as dome topper/handle
Mini tomato pin cushion from one my cat got a hold of!
Vintage Buttons
Scissors + needle & thread
Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
Cornelia Parker
Originally commissioned in 2016 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its roof garden, this work was first seen against New York's iconic skyline. Presented here in the Royal Academy's Annenberg Courtyard the structure is every bit as compelling and unsettling.
For Parker, the found object is key. Here she dismantled a traditional America red barn and appropriated its components: the planks of the long sidings became the house's walls and its corrugated roof provided material for the roof tiles. The design is based on the house in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, which in turn was modelled on a painting by Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad (1925). Hopper's painting was also a reference point for Parker who was drawn to its pared-back presentation and sense of eerie isolation.
Like Hitchcock's stage set, Parker's PsychoBarn is a façade, with the supporting framework left deliberately visible. The structures also share a slightly reduced scale, and both these characteristics add to the illusionary effect. The combination of the red barn's symbolism, with all its connotations of rural idyll and wholesomeness, with the sinister psychological complexity of Hitchcock's house presents a series of deliberate paradoxes. The work's title references a term from developmental psychology - the 'transitional object' - which refers to something which brings comfort, while being a substitute for reality.
[Royal Academy]
a better view of the wood color (Purpleheart) and the shape of the hook. The wool being spun is romney roving from Aunt Janet's Fiber Mill
Both spindles were made by my boyfriend and all of the Fibres are displayed in other pictures around here.