Week 8 Lab Summary: Pottery Firing

Introduction On Thursday our class finally convened in the Arboretum art yard to fire the loom weights that we shaped in Week 3. We had a great time firing the loom weights with tremendous help from Kelly Connole, the master of pottery, and Austin Mason, our professor. We came to the art yard knowing that…

Week 7 Group A Lab Data: Woodworking Part 2

As we have all remarked in our lab journals, we spent the week seven lab inside woodworking rather than firing the loom weights due to poor weather. We refined the pieces of our loom (smoothing beams, chiseling) and fashioned several new heddles. In all, we have now spent about eight hours working on the loom…

Week 5 Group B Lab Data: Wool

The Sheep Leicester Longwool largest of the four types of sheep curly s-shaped/clockwise fleece; fast-growing; shorn twice per year only males have horns breed developed in England; rather domesticated Icelandic on the smaller side shorter and straighter fleece than the longwools; can be shorn twice per year both males and females have horns allowed to…