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SmugMug > keywords > artisan > The Greek Isle of Rhodes - a more modern city with a busy port, ample shopping and great views of the sea.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > The Greek Isle of Rhodes - a more modern city with a busy port, ample shopping and great views of the sea.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > Bronze shield background. Selective focus. Shallow depth of field.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > Pots and plates in the cupbard at Katie's campsite during Heritage Days event at Willoughby Farm in Collinsville, IL on May 2, 2009.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > Gary's yarn basket. Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois display at Willoughby Farm in Collinsville for the Heritage Day event on May 2, 2009. www.artisanil.org
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > Spinning wheel demonstration by Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois at Willoughby Heritage Farm in Collinsville, IL on May 2, 2009.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > The spinning wheel drives a cord that is attached to the flyer (the U-shape shown in the lower left corner of this picture). Grace carefully feeds the raw wool to the bobbin inside the flyer. As the flyer spins, it twists the wool, turning it into a single-ply yard that is gathered up and wound around the bobbin inside the flyer. While Grace spins, she talks, her voice a gentle, quiet cadence in rhythm with the treadle, wheel and flyer. "The spinning wheel was invented around the time of da Vinci," she says. "He drew a flyer." But, she explained, "The Egyptians used a drop spindle, on which they made finer linen than we can create today." Later in the day, Grace demonstrated a drop spindle. It's essentially little more than a stick that spins downward, using gravity, while it twists the fiber.
SmugMug > keywords > artisan > "You know, lace was something only nobility was allowed to wear," Wahneta Dunn explained as she showed off her pizza box filled with lace made by her mother and herself. It made me realize how very much a part of the American experience the democratizing of lace was. But on the flip side of things. European lacemakers, rather than being honored, used to be virtual prisoners, living their entire lives within the confines of the workshop, to protect their masters' designs from being stolen. Wahneta told me the story of one of her students whose mother used to make lace in Europe. When she came to America, she refused to teach her daughter, because it was a reminder of her servitude. Only after her mother passed away was she free to learn the art.
Artisans Market and Costa del Sol photo
Photo by: Christine • see photo in gallery
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