Linear photography - weaving strips

[Alan T]

selvin wrote:

vinyl strips interwoven into a chain link base:

Gee, Selvin, it must have taken you weeks to fish all those strips through the wire!

Your fence is astonishingly like this artwork I photographed yesterday in a schoolin the Peak District at the eastern edge of Cheshire. They live in a historic sheep farming area, with some of the first woollen and cotton mills of the industrial revolution at the foot of the hills.

[Alan T]

The children had used the same weaving technique to create these models for a biblical Creation display to be used in the summer in Chester's mediaeval Mystery Plays, at the other, western edge of Cheshire.

I was there with another (real/professional)photographer friend I inveigled along with with his top-flight Nikon kit who was doing the job properly. Meanwhile I played with my little toy. It was unkindly noted that their Noah was clearly modelled on me.

[vsch1]

There's not much I like better than a child's creativity. Thanks for shairng these.

[selvin]

Alan,

The use of weaving as a child's first actvities in pre-school are to me one of the great things about the whole,idea of sending kids to pre-school.

They learn patience, manipulative skills, social skills, colors, and of course repetetive patterns.

I probably still have some of my kids'. Thanks for sharing these patterns.

Aloha