Ikat weaving, spring evening and robot victory

Yesterday's presentation, Global Ikat, Roots and Routes of a Textile Technique, was a rapid trip over many regions where ikat has been made for centuries, and continues.

Ikat is a weaving form where the weft, horizontal, threads  and/or the warp, vertical,  threads are pre wrapped and dyed to form patterns once woven. The planning and execution is as complex as you can imagine. When the threads are tied onto the loom and woven, there's a slight shift, resulting in familiar slightly fuzzy outlines.

Let's see some of the slides, to speak for themselves

Then, the endless rainy grey weather having blown away, I got out for a spring evening walk, just beautiful, one of those you remember.

Honeysuckle started, the scent not there yet, probably needs more warmth.

Presiding rabbit of the trees

What's this, in a neighbor's front yard? No scent, but great blossoms.

Then Mrs Dove this morning

 Then

Maybe taking a break or changing shifts with Mr Dove.

And this morning, watch this space

I used up the ivy leaf laundry soap so here's the ingredients for a different batch, not having much access to ivy right now. The lemon balm is the scent ingredient, after I'd shaken out a few resident insects.

And finally here's our local school district kids winning a world robotics competition yesterday

Underdogs because all their initial tries failed and they kept on working anyway.

Effort rewarded.

Happy day everyone, keep on keeping on!