Thinking about composing a piece of music that follows the cuticle scale edge patterns that vary along the length of a hair. ~Jacqui S
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Carding fleece here today. Using a Jacob's Fleece in rich chocolate brown which was donated by a Hopeweavers team member following a chat with a friendly shepherd at St Catherine's Hill, Winchester. Once carded, this fleece will be hand spun to form one of the yarns for my weaving. Thanks to Jann for this contribution. ~Jacqui L
Adding some commentary to the AFM images from the TAG group hair samples. I will post the annotated images on this site after the visit next week - TAG members will get a copy during the visit. The images mostly follow the expected breakage pattern, but noticed some very interesting surface architectural features that I've not seen before: I'll need to have a think about these. ~James
Just had an amazing delivery of willow withies in three beautiful colours from Julia Hayes who has an Apple Orchard at Durley. These three types of willow - Goat, Golden and Scarlet - will be used as part of the sculpture project being led by Geoff Poulton at Thornhill Art Group during May 2013. Very exciting to see such wonderful bright colours and forms - almost like extremely large strands of dyed hair. Many thanks to Julia who has donated these valuable resources to the RMS Project. ~Jacqui L
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