Archive for January, 2012
Empowering Women Leadership through Civic Dialogues and Action: Utilizing Online/Offline Social Networking
reading through the grant proposal with Sharon et al…
The section I worked on is “Empowering Women Leadership through Civic Dialogues and Action: Utilizing Online/Offline Social Networking: Leadership Development Project (LDP)”
and I keep thinking up all sorts of fun exercises in my head now that its materialized as a possible project. I am looking forward to it- hopefully we get the grant.
experiments with the takhli (or is it really tahkli?)
Ordered cotton punis and also cotton carders today – in the meanwhile I did try spinning the cotton roving I have without it being put into punis, using my new tahkli spindle with the brass whorl. no image of that attempt and failure yet – will put one up later in the week maybe. Meanwhile what I call my westernized tahkli spindle arrived today and I am trying to spin the wool on that – all in the name of hybridity
interesting….
First bit of handspun yarn crocheted bit
made from sample of roving from twisted.etsy.com
how many such small bits before I can piece together something I can use?
(Auto) ethnographic streaming project currently in progress on my FB stream
One aspect of it will possibly be presented soon (details forthcoming) as
“Gandhi’s Granddaughters Scattered Worldwide: Spinning, Weaving and other Craft(ed) Networks in (Post)Modernity”
Sankranthi Subhaakankshalu
“Sankranti is the Sanskrit word in Indian Astrology which refers to the transmigration of the Sun from one R?shi (sign of the zodiac) to another. Hence there are 12 such sankrantis in all. However, the Sankranti festival usually refers to Makara Sankaranti, or the transition of the Sun from Dhanu rashi (Sagittarius) to Makara rashi (Capricorn).” (wikkipedia).
ad hoc learning environments
I should do more research workshops in my weaving room (the other living room in my house) – around cultural work, craft, economy, nationalism, Gandhi, Marx, affect, labor, value, everyday rural (and urban) practice and globalization…
Y O, D P, A B and I had a very engaging conversation intertwined with demonstration of four harness loom use and Y J’s modelling of the Kanjeevaram sari
And I gave in to knitting too
As I said the other day on my Facebook status update.
There is method to my madness even if it looks more like madness to my method.
(but really that’s just the point isn’t it – method does not just happen. its carved out ofmadness).
So now I’m struggling through knitting. My UFO s now include knitting, quilt patches, weaving and crochet…
Thinking through issues of value, labor, affect…
