Week 3 Lab Journal: Cheese Making
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Week 2 Lab Summary
Introduction During the Week 2 Lab, we were introduced to the ancient practice of textile making and participated in the first steps in textile manufacturing. We prepared for the lab by spending the classes leading up to it doing readings about textiles in the ancient Mediterranean, watching a film about how learning about wool working…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 2: Wool
Our wool lab consisted of spinning, carding, and weaving, which were all methods of processing wool done primarily by women before the invention of modern textile manufacturing. Throughout the three stations, a central challenge we faced was deciding how to best represent the processes through quantitative data. Since there was a significant learning curve across…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 6: Wool
Each of our group members measured the amount of wool that they had spun during the 3.5 hour lab. Those that completed extra spinning over the weekend, sent in the amount of time spent spinning and the amount of wool spun. Time Spent Spinning in hours (plus additional) Wool Spun in feet (plus additional) 3.5…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 3 : Wool
Spinning Our group started with spinning which allowed us to spend a nice portion of the class being able to learn and improve our spinning skills with focused attention before moving on to other fiber arts tasks. Our group had mixed feelings about their spinning experiences; after the first hour some of the words our…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 4: Wool
Overview This week our lab focused on wool. We have been studying shepherds throughout the world across time, and in order to understand wool working at a more in-depth level, we learned how to spin. Professor Morton brought in two professional, local shepherds to teach us and share their experiences. Titled “Wool,” our lab was…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 1 : Wool
Experimental Data Click arrow to open pdf viewer! Reference: The above pdf was made in Latex, a service I use to create clean and professional documentation for technical school work. As far as experimentation goes, we mostly recorded 3 grams of wool from the beginning process of Carding, to spinning, and then measuring the outcome…
Week 2 Lab Data Group 5 : Wool
Experiential, Qualitative Data Throughout the experiment, I recorded the experiences, feelings, and instantaneous thoughts of my group members as we cycled through the different stations of the Wool lab. These stations were carding, spinning, and weaving wool, although not in that strict order. I’ve ordered what we found in the order that we did the…
Week 2 Lab Journal: Wool
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Week 2 Lab Journal: Spinning
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