{"id":418,"date":"2009-12-13T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2009-12-13T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T22:52:44","slug":"fiddling-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My extra-special-bonus-day has turned into an afternoon of playing with string, but mostly of fiddling around on the computer, learning some new things, and organizing whole piles of odds and ends. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saving links, and if I post them I don&#8217;t need to save them any more. As you might expect, the sciencey stuff is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahgoslee.com\/?p=147\">elsewhere<\/a>, and the string and other medieval bits are here. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.sothebys.com\/events\/L09741\">Sotheby&#8217;s Catalog: Western Manuscripts<\/a>. The auction is over, but the photos are still online. The e-catalog allows some extreme closeups. A quick look suggests that the seal tag on Lot 19 (late 12th-c English) is doubleface tablet weaving. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112726804\">30,000-year-old<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/15\/science\/15obfiber.html\">flax fibers<\/a> &#8211; knotted and dyed!<\/li>\n<li>The book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staff.hum.ku.dk\/dbwagner\/Pattern-and-Loom.html\">Pattern and Loom<\/a> is now freely available online.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/home.swipnet.se\/roland\/emma.html\">Traditional shoes<\/a> and shoe hay in Lapland.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/v1kram.posterous.com\/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man\">The invisible man<\/a>: reality art?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There. I&#8217;m making progress on the organizational stuff. Now for some organizational baking- that&#8217;s when you use up things that have been lurking in the freezer, like that tub of rhubarb pie filling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My extra-special-bonus-day has turned into an afternoon of playing with string, but mostly of fiddling around on the computer, learning some new things, and organizing whole piles of odds and ends. I&#8217;ve been saving links, and if I post them I don&#8217;t need to save them any more. As you might expect, the sciencey stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}