Author Topic: Traditional crafts program (Read 9506 times)

RUSTYME · « **Reply #30 on:** February 25, 2010, 07:01:29 pm »

not quite hand made wheelwrighting , but this link shows how many thousands of wooden wheels were made :
http://www.youtube.com/user/lowebeck#p/u/18/7F4kIAD7_qA
http://www.youtube.com/user/lowebeck#p/u/17/u7vvqv38M-s

a slightly more traditional way of tyring a wheel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBM0RzElvRE

and still some more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCojJ-K3Ad0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_yketZyUM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-RttIyIad8&feature=related

and also a modern way of making barrels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvW8g42a4kw&feature=related

really anoying music and voice , but interesting to see how they make them nowdays.

and then there is the company called ' perverts r us ':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta72Tv4sqD0&feature=fvw

hope all the links work !!!

cheers

Russ

RUSTYME · « **Reply #31 on:** February 25, 2010, 08:18:06 pm »

More clips from the 'Hands' series , this time rushwork :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjKRvGH17U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvTlnnSoWRI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YELhnSftwS0&NR=1

cheers

Russ

sagehen · « **Reply #32 on:** February 26, 2010, 02:58:01 pm »

Have you seen the tillers international one? Just type in tillers international on youtube.

I've seen the Victorian farm one, and the modern coopering pah! What a soulless video that one was

Mind you I liked that one where they initiated the apprentice - anything with Steve Vai playing in the background can't be bad

marigold · « **Reply #33 on:** February 27, 2010, 11:37:34 am »

Quote from: sagehen on February 25, 2010, 04:48:43 pm

and it'd be great to start a new thread with pics to show off whatever craft we're doing at the minute.

Hiya Sagehen and Russ
I have been immersed in books for the last few days and not got back here. Thanks for the latest links I am definitely going to watch the Jack Hargreaves. I was working with an artist friend last week who wanted to teach her students at college about wood block printing and we found great links on youtube. We decided in the end that if we got them to research the topic on youtube and then teach us how to do it it would resource them in two ways - they may then be able to teach themselves a variety of skills from such wee films.

Glad you're feeling a bit better SH. There is a link under crafts where people do post their latest works. Happyhippy and fluffwelshsheep have some great photos there. The other way to do it is to load images to flickr or some other pic sharing site and put the link into a message on Crafts. Russ does that and might be able to advise us which is the best share site to use.

The link below is to my flickr site which has images of my ceramics pieces I make at my Thursday night class. - it is better than yoga for my head.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstyintercreative/

Would be great to see your textiles SH Shall we start a new post under Crafts?

sagehen · « **Reply #34 on:** February 27, 2010, 01:25:29 pm »

Hiya Marigold
Wow, you've ventured into ceramics and sculpting, and I can see the Klimt element in the bread bin actually. I do like Gustav Klimt's works, but I'm more into surrealist art than any other. Was the block printing on textiles? I did lino printing for a while, but I wasn't very good at it LOL! I couldn't convey what I wanted onto the lino. Don't think I was meant to be an artist

Yes, start a new thread, by all means. I'm slightly technologically challenged, so I need to figure it out (how to post pics/reduce their size) at my own time

marigold · « **Reply #35 on:** February 27, 2010, 02:27:38 pm »

Thanks SH for your kind words. Which surrealists do you like?

Don't worry about the technological challenge bit
Annie told me how to post pics
When you reply to this add any old pic by clicking on the additional options link at the bottom left hand side of the reply box. then to get to the pic you want click the browse button that appears and that should take you into the normal file function on your computer.
When you have selected the image and the link to it appears in the browse window just press post.

To scale down your pic before you do any of that - open it in your normal photo viewing way and then do 'save as' select JPEG and file size and make sure that the file size is less that 128kb.

If you use flickr for example you won't need to reduce the sixe of the photos so much which i think is the main advantage.

RUSTYME · « **Reply #36 on:** February 27, 2010, 04:13:29 pm »

I have seen the international videos before , they are very good , as is the web site of theirs too. I had forgotten about them though , so thanks for the reminder Sage.
The modern coopering video is as you say ' soul less ' , and that was one of the less robotic ones I found . As for the apprentice initiation video , more one for the girls me thinks !!!

but funny none the less , Steve Vai ? , not into music much at all really .
For putting pics on the forum I use photobucket . There are others, picasa , flickr and more who's names have gone for the moment , but all that I have tried , other than PB , I find leave me scratching my head not knowing what I am doing !! Photobucket is simple (like me !!) , works and is free.

cheers

Russ

sagehen · « **Reply #37 on:** February 27, 2010, 04:52:40 pm »

Okay here goes...

sagehen · « **Reply #38 on:** February 27, 2010, 05:53:43 pm »

Okay meddled about with picasa and have no idea what happened to the pic, but lessee..

marigold · « **Reply #39 on:** February 27, 2010, 06:06:13 pm »

What lovely pieces and great colours!
Well done for posting photos too.
It looks like very careful well tensioned work. You're inspiring me ..... thank you

RUSTYME · « **Reply #40 on:** February 27, 2010, 06:10:30 pm »

pics worked fine Sage.....nice work too.... the last one made my eyes go wobbly

, till I made the pic bigger and it was fine then ... a nice pattern.
I will have to start sorting out loom plans and get some work done !!! even if it is for a smaller loom to start with .

cheers

Russ

RUSTYME · « **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:27:47 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r34zx/Mastercrafts_Blacksmithing/

as it says on the link ...blacksmithing tonight !!! best one so far I think . Plus my great Auntie lives in Barton on Humber so a family link too...

cheers

Russ

sagehen · « **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2010, 10:34:37 pm »

Thanks for the compliments, guys

Marigold, yes, I'm quite obsessive with tension. I know loose tensioned work has more movement and flow, but I do like balance in my work. Who knows, maybe i'll be brave one day and try loosely tensioned weaving *gasp*

Russ, when you start on your loom, you'll have to post pics of it in progress

I''d be interested to see how it's constructed.