Rachel Beckman » Weaver & Textile Designer

Puppets and Looms and Stilts, Oh My!

So this is my warp for my Puppets and Prosthetics final. I am not at all certain that this is going to work- the double cloth warp seems a little funky pulled through my makeshift dent reed, but I shall carry forth!  The bit to the left is for a little side fringe action, and when I get a little more into the projection I will tell you all about the practical and aesthetic purposes for such fringe.

In other news somewhat related, my Puppets and Prosthetics teacher, Molly Ross of Nana Projects, decided that today was too beautiful a day to sit inside and watch videos, so she took a bunch of us out to her studio in Baltimore and we learned how to stilt walk. Apparently I am a natural, and I had so much fun wobbling around the beautiful, green field in my sequin-decorated stilts. I definitely see custom stilt building in my future. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of my excursion, but I imagine I looked something like this: