During the Thanksgiving break, I did my best to try and catch up on work. I didn’t get nearly the amount that I wanted done; this was the week that the medication for my chronic headaches decided it didn’t want to do its job. I increased the dosage but it takes about a week to take effect, so there went my week. But, let’s focus on the positive. What did I get done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, I did more spinning. Spinning is one of the few things I can do when I have headaches. While I do tend to have a bright light on, which doesn’t help with the pain, I don’t need to focus my eyes intensely on what I’m doing when I spin. A lot of it is by feel and muscle memory. I’ve even spun in the moonlight during a power outage. Related to fiber work, I also bought myself a niddy noddy. A niddy noddy is a tool that allows you to create a skein of yarn by wrapping yarn around it; it also allows you to estimate how much yarn you have by counting how many times you went around the niddy noddy with the yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also did some reading and writing. It felt good to be visibly productive. I caught up on a couple of the week summaries and I started writing a post about combing wool. It’s a bit challenging trying to describe combing wool. I wanted to make a video showing what it looks like, but I realized that making a video was a bit more complicated than I thought it would be. I also continued reading Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece<\/em>. Looking back at my notes, I’m remembering that I wanted to look into the textile tool, the epinetron<\/em>. Epinetra<\/em> are half cylinder pottery pieces that women placed over their thighs to protect them from combing wool <\/span>. This doesn’t make any sense to me. When I comb wool, the combs aren’t anywhere near my legs; protection is not needed. If I was carding wool, perhaps I might want to protect my legs depending on how I was doing it. Perhaps this is one of those moments where researchers\/archaeologists don’t realize that combing and carding are very different methods and are not interchangeable terms. This sort of thing happens often, it turns out. When people who know nothing about fiber arts study textile archaeology, they sometimes come to inaccurate conclusions because they don’t actually understand the craft. This is something that the author of Women’s Work<\/em>, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, brings up that makes me wonder how textile archaeology would change if people were required to be proficient at various fiber arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n During the Thanksgiving break, I did my best to try and catch up on work. I didn’t get nearly the amount that I wanted done; this was the week that the medication for my chronic headaches decided it didn’t want to do its job. I increased the dosage but it takes about a week to … Continue reading Fall 2020 – Thanksgiving Week Summary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,4,3],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}