It is hard to give a complete lab report for my group as this lab was more of an individual journey than usual, but I will report on my experience with the clay and what I gathered from both the zoom and class today. The rough measurements that Kelly gave us were difficult to go…
Group A Lab Data: Week 6
Introduction In the lab this week, the emphasis of the class switched from a focus on animals, animal products, and food, to plant products. Specifically, this week’s lab was focused on cordage and weaving. Most of the lab was experiential, as the entire lab was spent in one of two known processes: making cordage and…
Week 6 Group Data: Group F
For this week’s lab, we split our time between basket weaving and rope making. Both had their own learning curves, and although we started out rather slowly, we saw a rapid increase in our efficiency over the course of an hour and a half. The basket weaving was made easier because we had a solid…
Week 6 Plant Fibers lab data: Group D
Introduction This lab involved two activities: weaving baskets and processing wood into cording. The data collected was mostly experiential, in the form of descriptions of the difficulty or ease with which the processes required for both activities could be performed, the relative qualities of the materials involved, etc. These descriptions, in addition to the limited…
Group E Lab Data – Week 6
Introduction Similar to the wool week, most the data collected this week was qualitative as opposed to quantitive. I’ll do my best to recap group observations and reactions to various parts of the lab. There are 3 main components I’ll be discussing: Processing fibers, making cordage, and basket weaving. With regards to cordage, my group…
Week 6: Weaving and Cording Lab Data Group B
Cordage: Dogbane is the most fibrous of the materials we used in lab this week, allowing us to more easily translate wool working skills to this material. It produced very thin cord that was more easily added to than the other materials. Basswood was much more difficult to work with than dogbane. Its thicker fibers…
Week 6: Fiber Lab Data
Cordage Our group started at the fiber processing station. We gravitated towards the tan cattails and spent the next 1.5 hours making cordage out of them. Austin collected the cattails from the arboretum this week, but our group could imagine people making cordage in the winter out of cattails collected in the fall. Our first…
Group E Week 5 Lab Data
Due to the nature of this lab, most of the data I collected as data collector is qualitative and anecdotal to my experience and the experience of my group members. Learning to Spin The first activity we didi in this lab was learn to spin using out hand spindles that Alejandata gave us. The spindle…
Week 5 Lab Data, Group F
Introduction The nature of this week’s lab was experiential rather than experimental. As a result, the majority of data collected is observational (and, therefore, partially subjective). Times are recorded in some instances to measure efficiency, but there were no official constraints. Learning to Spin At 1:45pm, each student received a drop spindle, a leader string,…
Week 5 Lab Data – Group D
Because lab this week involved working with wool and making things with our hands, there were very few numbers involved and the data collected was mostly qualitative and subjective. Introduction: Learning to Spin At 1:50, we began lab by learning how to spin. We each received our own drop spindles, balls of roving wool from…
