Lab Group Data, Group F; Week 5, Spring 2024: Dyeing

During this lab, our guest, Alejandra Sanchez, returned to facilitate this lab, wherein we dyed the wool we learned how to spin in the prior lab, alongside other natural fibres, from yarn to human hair to shirts. In this lab, I was the data recorder for Group F, which consisting of myself, Gisele Nelson, and Elek Thomas-Toth. We were assigned a pot alongside another group. That group was tasked with only making a yellow dye by itself, which our two groups collectively did, as yellow marigold dye was an intermediary step to producing a green dye, which was what our group sought to do.

Lab Summary Week 7: Blacksmithing

This week’s summary was written by Ashton Macklin ’27 (light blue shirt)with Albert “Al-Boss” Bosler ’25 (dark blue shirt) This week saw our class engage in its sixth lab: Blacksmithing. The lab was made only possible with the much-appreciated guidance of a guest: local Northfield blacksmith, Martin Pansch. Coincidentally, Martin is the smith under which…
Pottery Group F member, Hope Yu holding clay in preparation to make a pot

Lab Group Data, Group F Week 3: Pottery

Introduction Each group consisted of three members. Our group – Group F – consisted of the same members as last week: Jack Rizzo, Hope Yu, and me, Ashton Macklin. While each team was given different ratios of components to incorporate into their clays, each individual had to make a clay pot using the given clay…