Week 9 Lab Journal: Turf Building
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Week 8 Group F Lab Data: Woodworking
Introduction: Given that this week was far more about working to construct the tent and we were all occupied for all of the 4-hour lab time, there was not a very large amount of data I was able to record. Most of the data in this post will be the 60% measurements of each of…
Week 8 Lab Journal: Woodworking and Tents
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Week 7 Lab Journal: Blacksmithing
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Week 6 Group C Lab Data: Cremation/Pottery Firing
Overview: For this week’s lab, my group (Group C) was working with Group D to build the cremation pyre in the center of the island. Additionally, we fired our 6 pots in order to test how well they would survive based on the tempers that were used to create them, in a callback to the…
Week 6 Lab Journal: Cremation and Pottery Firing
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Lab Summary Week 5: Dyeing
By Gisele Nelson and Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff Introduction: For our fourth lab, we experienced making different colors of dyes with help from wool expert and friend of the class Alejandra Sanchez, who also assisted us last week in our carding, spinning, and weaving lab. As a class, we made four colors (yellow, green, blue, and purple)…
Week 5 Lab Journal: Dyeing
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Week 4 Lab Journal: Weaving and Spinning
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Week 3 Group A Lab Data: Pottery
Introduction: For this week’s pottery lab, my group (Group A) was tasked with creating our pottery with a temper that consisted of mostly gravel and sand, with only a very small amount of chaff. The exact and ideal proportions that our group tried to use was as follows: 500g clay, 80g sand, 19g gravel, 1g…
