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Sprang for Display

5/29/2018

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Visiting at the RedFish Yarn display earlier this year, they told me that they welcome finished pieces. So .... wanting more people to touch sprang, and because I do like the color and feel of RedFish yarn, I've set to work, and have created two pieces.
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The yellow piece reflects a lace pattern that I wrote out, after examining sprang pieces in the British Museum collection, specifically EA21632.
The multi-colored piece is a circular warp neckscarf with a twined design, and I suppose you're wondering how I did it. Here are a series of photos that might help you to understand.
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1. I set the skein on my sprang frame, and adjusted the frame length to accommodate.
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2. I then created a cross, working through the length of the skein, arranging the cross in a pair of chopsticks.
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3. I then set the yellow colored yarn at intervals within the blue-and-purple-and-green warp.
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4. The warp ready for the sprang work.
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5. Circular warp interlinking sprang with yellow twining lines.
If you want to know how to create those yellow twining lines, have a look at my YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm2pY8PHqWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhW-TrDwluM

If you want to see the finished pieces, I'll deliver them to RedFish in time for the HGA Convergence Vendor's Hall in Reno, Nevada, this July.
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May travels 2018

5/15/2018

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Once again, I'm at the Kelsey Museum, studying their collection of sprang bonnets.
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I'm working with Dr Julia Galliker. We are documenting items in the collection found at Karanis. As part of this work, I am writing out the patterns for these bonnets. To error-check the patterns, I make replica bonnets .... Lovely to see them side-by-side with the originals.
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Travels, April 2018

5/6/2018

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April 2018, there were several destinations on my calendar, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Bissell House, St Louis, Missouri, the Vesterheim Museum, Decorah, Iowa, and a family wedding in California.
I started out travelling to Grand Forks.
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Snow on the ground as I left Winnipeg, photo taken from the airplane as we taxied.
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Scenery outside my window in Grand Forks, BC. Springtime.
I taught diverse braiding techniques to a group of school teachers, Aboriginal Education specialists, in Grand Forks, British Columbia.
Then off to St Louis, Missouri.
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I love to watch the scenery change outside my airplane window.
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I went to St. Louis because I had been asked to have a look at a sprang sash in the keeping of the General Daniel Bissell House in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Bissell sash on the left, my sashes on the right.
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Comparison of thread size in the fringes.
General Daniel Bissell built the house in the early 1800s. He was involved in the military history of the time. His military uniform is part of the collection at the house, including a sprang sash. I brought along two sashes that I had made, to compare and contrast.

The sash is almost 10 ft long, features geometric lace designs, triangles and diamond shapes, and is in excellent condition.

Then on to the Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa. Sprang has been redlisted by the Norwegian Government, highlighting its cultural signifacance, and the danger of its loss. The Norwegian-American museum in Decorah asked me to teach a 4-day class. I travelled from St Louis to Decorah by way of Minneapolis.
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Scenery outside my window in St Louis.
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Scenery along the way from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Decorah, Iowa.
The Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum is contained in several buildings in downtown Decorah, Iowa.
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The Vesterheim Museum
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The Vesterheim Education Center
The class covered the basics of sprang, the interlinking stitch, ways to set up, decorative possibilities, and diverse finishing techniques. The 4-day length of the class allowed participants enough time in supported exploration to get comfortable with the technique.
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Chief Curator Laurann Gilbertson treated us to a viewing of sprang items from the museum collection.
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We were able to look closely at lovely sprang lace and take photos. I wrote out patterns for my students based on these designs.
Then on to California, where I attended a family wedding.
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Scenery in California is certainly different that what I'm used to in the prairies.
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