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Last Friday I went to the Santa Cruz Art League to see the current show, "5th Annual California Fiber Arts Exhibit". Beautiful, fun and amazing stuff! One piece that caught my interest was a dress crocheted from casette tape. I'm sorry that I didn't note the artist's name to mention it here. Casette tape as yarn. HMMM.. It was one of those things I just had to try. Later in the day, as I was telling my idea to a co-worker, she suggested that I stop by her house and collect a box full of tapes from the garage which they needed to get rid of. Okay. I did.Over the weekend, I thought I might weave something cool to enter into the show at the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center entitled "Experiments in Art and Technology". That was a little too ambitious as the dropoff for the show was on Sunday. Here are the first two experiments. Let me know if you have any fabulous ideas. I was thinking of doing a wall piece with this kind of fold thing going on. My kids think belts and guitar straps would be cool. What do you think?
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Casette tape is easy to dispense from the handy little container with rollers, unlike most yarn. It is pretty strong, although I did break a few warps while weaving with it. It feels strange, something between paper and plastic. But, my oh my, is it shiny! It was a bit hard to get a good photo. You can click on any of the photos to make them larger. Look at this box of raw materials. How compact is that? Better than any yarn I own.
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What a cool idea! Hmmmm...I've got a batch of old cassette tapes I don't use any more...
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