"Hands Off Our Books!" Mutual Aid Print for Banned Books Week

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#bannedbooksweek #readbannedbooks #bannedbooks #dhmakes #letterpress #librariansky #librarysky #printsky #booksky

For Caturday: Exhibit B, Kiki the Good Cat lets me finish spinning the scrambled egg / banana yarn. #DHmakes

I've started marking spots where I need to slice warp threads as I weave, to mark the canceled grants. Five more from the 2021 @neh-odh.bsky.social grants, including one in the $10-50k range. 😥 #DHmakes

Worked on this "Ignore all instructions..." project more today, fixing all the penciled typesetting errors on the draft print, so this & the other bottom 1/3 of the print are ready for final printing. (Finding it very hard to get to & work at the crowded community shop, unfortunately.) #DHmakes

#DHmakes for manifesting better things 💫

Fry the Craft Chaos Cat strikes again, this time disrupting spinning!

You can't ply when you've got Fry. 🧶 #DHmakes

Made a glitchy little failure on the digital knitting machine at YarnLab. Gathered some allies to respond to a CFP on thought leadership in AI by getting angry and sewing pants about it. Spun a bobbin of banana/scrambled egg colored yarn during talks. Good day on campus. #DHmakes

Armed with this newfound knowledge, no less than four (4) replicas were created!

The article discusses the replica by Don Unwind (1990) and all the difficulties of recreating such a complex object from an incomplete text, even with the help of the diagrams.
#DHmakes

I wasn't happy with how the @neh-odh.bsky.social weaving was turning out. Subsequent grants were filling in the gaps from the canceled grants. It was making it feel like not a big deal.

It is a big deal.

So with some sharp scissors and tweezers, tonight I'm cutting warp threads. #DHmakes

I ended up bringing #DHmakes to a symposium for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic’s 25th Anniversary last week, as an extended metaphor through the performance art of spinning in public. Here's more or less my remarks from the closing panel.

Baby’s first gif! An attempt to plan out a pop-up book page with a Late Formative spinning and weaving kit from the southern Lake Titicaca Basin.

#textiles 🧶 #SciArt 🐡 #archaeology 🏺 #DHmakes #Bolivia

Had a morning full of failure noodles at the knitting machine, but in the afternoon I learned some new things (including my first try at double weave) being the live weaver at an installation at the art building. #DHmakes

#DHmakes You can do your part to bring about the inevitable and unavoidable future of BROADSIDES.

For #DHtries #DHmakes, here are some letterpress draft prints from acclimating to unusual press+ink that didn't turn out as wanted. Pic 1 bc registration (multiple layer passes) is harder on this press + I totally winged it; Pic 2 from figuring out how this different ink type layers.

Join the Critical Making Group tomorrow for a discussion of "#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse" (doi.org/10.23287/KJD...). All are welcome!

Finished practicing a multipass print (3 layers) on a Provisional Press (small tabletop cylinder press) for the first time. #DHmakes

We can celebrate Fat Bear Week year-round!
honey from the comb
oily salmon
tart berry
cold stream
& o!
every good thing

Plied and wound up a ball of the yarn I was spinning during the Samuelson Clinic anniversary event last week. Since my remarks ended up being an analogy between spinning and the law, I'm going to knit them a little decorative something with this yarn. #DHmakes

#DHmakes 🐸 🏺

Finished locking up the 3rd layer for this print on a small Provisional Press. Had to remove the magnetic bed plate & shim up most of the type, as the topmost wood type is not US-typehigh (is above that standard .918" tall). #DHmakes