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Celebration 50th Birthday Piece In Progress

Sometimes when I begin a project I make a layout in Flash. By making symbols for each letter and number I can quickly compose a layout while preventing errors in the code.

Vertical Layout 1963

Vertical Layout 05111963

Horizontal Layout 2013

Horizontal Layout 05112013

1963 and 2013

Horizontal 2013 Over Vertical 1963

1963 and 2013

Layout With Dated Pennies

The piece is composed of wool, cotton, pennies, hardware cloth, burlap, and starch.

Piece in Wool

The knotted piece connects two pennies (1963 and 2013) is to be hung next to the woven piece. There is a sentiment in Morse Code substituting knots for dots, dashes, and spacers. Grey knots represent dots, cream knots represent dashes, and rust knots are used as spacers between letters of words and larger spaces between words.

Detail 1963 and 2013 Pennies

Detail of component to hang next to woven piece.

The next part of the process is to construct a cedar box/frame. The woven piece will probably be attached with brads. I haven’t decided on the hanger for the knotted component.


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