Green Fairy yarn beginnings..
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artemis42I'm enjoying both coming up with these ideas for art yarns, and documenting my process by running around with my digital camera and posting images here. All this will probably find a home on my site, but for now, I'm just going to run with it while I'm still building design ideas.
So.. here's the beginnings of this project.
I'm particularly fond of Absinthe, both the taste of the anisette liquor and the mystique and romance surrounding the traditional preparation of the apertif. What better inspiration for a yarn?
Here's the progression of the drink's preparation in photos.
First, the light emerald green liquor is poured into the bottom of a glass, over a sugar cube placed on a slotted absinthe spoon.
Ice cold water is then poured over the sugar cube and into the drink, causing the clorophyll present in the herbs the drink is made with to precipitate out, clouding the drink, which is referred to as louching, and turning it a milky, opalescent green.
The sugar is traditionally added to this preparation to cut the bitterness associated with wormwood, which is not used in commercially available Absinthe substitutes available in the US due to old concerns about toxicity, largely acknowledged to be unsubstantiated. What was termed 'absinthism' in Paris when the drink was banned was really just alcoholism. For more, here's Wikipedia's entry.
So.. in honor of the "Green Fairy" and all the dreams she is said to have inspired artists like Vincent Van Gogh with, here is the spindle for my old wheel, dressed with a mix of merino wool, silk, angora and iridescent sparkle and sitting next to my glass of Absente for color comparison. We'll see how it wants to be spun.
Creative burst aside, I'm going to finish my drink, spin a bit more and go sleep.
Later.
-Me.
So.. here's the beginnings of this project.
I'm particularly fond of Absinthe, both the taste of the anisette liquor and the mystique and romance surrounding the traditional preparation of the apertif. What better inspiration for a yarn?
Here's the progression of the drink's preparation in photos.
First, the light emerald green liquor is poured into the bottom of a glass, over a sugar cube placed on a slotted absinthe spoon.
Ice cold water is then poured over the sugar cube and into the drink, causing the clorophyll present in the herbs the drink is made with to precipitate out, clouding the drink, which is referred to as louching, and turning it a milky, opalescent green.
The sugar is traditionally added to this preparation to cut the bitterness associated with wormwood, which is not used in commercially available Absinthe substitutes available in the US due to old concerns about toxicity, largely acknowledged to be unsubstantiated. What was termed 'absinthism' in Paris when the drink was banned was really just alcoholism. For more, here's Wikipedia's entry.
So.. in honor of the "Green Fairy" and all the dreams she is said to have inspired artists like Vincent Van Gogh with, here is the spindle for my old wheel, dressed with a mix of merino wool, silk, angora and iridescent sparkle and sitting next to my glass of Absente for color comparison. We'll see how it wants to be spun.
Creative burst aside, I'm going to finish my drink, spin a bit more and go sleep.
Later.
-Me.
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Date: 2007-01-23 02:23 am (UTC)-me
That is *so* kewl!!!
Date: 2007-01-25 01:37 am (UTC)Re: That is *so* kewl!!!
Date: 2007-01-25 08:00 am (UTC)The single got spun up tonight, and I'm deciding how to ply it in the next few hours. The angora was kind of a pain to mix in, since the fibers are so short, but it definitely upped the fuzz factor.
Photos soon...
-Me.
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:57 pm (UTC)Just as an aside, it's legal in the EU again. As a treat (it's not cheap), there are companies there that will send it to the US. Just one bottle rarely gets caught.
Happy birthday, too.
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Date: 2007-02-01 11:02 pm (UTC)I'll probably eventually order a bottle from somewhere, if I don't get to Europe within the next 10 years.
-Me.