and one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
and the nights are seen to draw colder
they'll beg for your strength, your gentle power
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bring a song for the evening
clean brass to flash the dawn
across these acres glistening
like dew on a carpet lawn
in these dark towns folk lie sleeping
as the heavy horses thunder by
to wake the dying city
with the living horseman's cry
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a giant "chaos style" weaving in all the earthy colors i could combine. this piece has 72 different fibers in it. it makes me think of the clydesdales dragging lumber through a muddy forest full of growing and decaying flora, what about you?
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i rarely document my process, but i tried to with this one! pictures 7-13 are the (incomplete) palette of options, a few stages of woven state, and then the back tail ends loose, tucked, and finally the covered back :)
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 32"x27" frame, 28"x 23.5" woven space
depth: ~2"
materials: wool yarn and roving, cotton, antique velvet, alpaca, handspun yarns, camel, linen, and other synthetic fibers, wooden frame