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Heritage Craft First Principles: A series of video lessons on topics that underlie the traditional crafts...

Skills are like an onion & layers are built upon, one after another

Short Lessons are free on our You Tube Channel: TheDancingGoats!

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The Goats that Dance and Start to Fly...

 

Among First Principles, Knots are the most basic skill. Keep them simple, tie them correctly and use them in the right places for the task & they will serve you well...

12th Night Approaches and the Days Begin to Lengthen...

TheImaginariumForge, is the ETSY Shop BLOG of TheDancingGoats…

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Late Autumn Slumber & Pre Solstice Clockwork Shadows, my new Time Lapse on our You Tube Channel

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Things that are very fast and very slow...are fascinating. The apparent motion of time is just the movement of a machine and the original clockwork was the Sky, Gaia, Sol, Luna & the Wanderers.

Chimney Rock from the Observation Kiva

 

Shadows...Angles...The Sun's path across a window...Like the great gnomon at the Chimney Rock Archeological Site...Once in 19 years it serves as a marker against the night sky and frames the Moonrise...

 

Water is 1000 feet away, straight down...

 The great Chacoan watchtower and signaling station for monitoring the sky's motion. Observe...Repeat...

 

Just like the 'Beacon of Gondor', Chimney rock was a light tower for signaling Chaco Prime of the once in 19 years major standstill of the moon...In the 3rd photo, right in the middle of the horizon is the direction of Chaco Canyon...6700+ observations required just to catch the major standstill a second time...

 

Chimney Rock: A deeply mysterious and deeply sacred place...Where the Clockwork of the Sky, like a shadow on a window could predict events and perhaps be understood...

 

One of the Great Mysteries in North America...

Music and Making:

Another Interlude from:

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Making things for sale for our craft and fiber festivals is always a challenge.

I never cut corners or hasten a process for the sake of production…

A new Time Lapse Video is up on You Tube on our channel:

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Making Whorls is the 1st step in the assembly of the various fiber tools we offer...

 

The Pressure Chuck...

 

There are Journey Person practices though, that take advantage of ‘The Economy of Motion’...The ‘Pressure Chuck’ is one innovation in Turning that elevates productivity in an amazing way…

A very simple cone with a very flat end surface acts as the driver & allows a ‘plate’ to be turned like a spindle with no waste. The Lathe is a 1946 Atlas Screw Making Engine...

 

A Drop Spindle Whorl

 

The Music Track in the video is John Serrie and is an example of the ethereal landscapes that aid a Maker's concentration.