Made of fail?

[gurdymonkey]

The shibori sampler is hanging in the shower. I won't know whether it worked or not until it is dry enough to pull out the threads, remove the tape and plugs. I am not encouraged by the fact that one piece of tape fell off on the trip from the kitchen to the bathroom.

Frustrating? YES. Tying knots for kanoko was an exercise all on its own, especially since I'd try to do it the way it is in the book and end up pulling the previous knots out....  I can only wait and see if the method I worked out produces the desired result.

In the meantime, working backwards, I have put together the bibliography/webography and about two double spaced pages so far on the research paper. (I have two books I can't cite simply because they are in Japanese and  one is a museum catalogue with no ISBN number and the other is a museum publication with an ISBN number that I was unable to trace by searching on the internet. The good news is that there's a significant amount of digitized art on the internet that I CAN provide citations for.  And no, I'm still not telling what it's about yet.

EDIT: When is a 14 page paper "less than 10 pages"? When it includes a two page bibliography and a five page appendix of illustrations. Time to put it away for awhile. I'll proof it tomorrow evening. Food would be good about now.....

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Comments

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Because I cannot READ the author, date, publisher or location.

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

Scan the front plate and I will see if I can read it. I will see if I can get my Japanese mother in law to read it for you. Ha! Just.. hurry. I have to send the email to Japan.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Auree you rock!

[kareina.livejournal.com]

please forgive my confusion, but how can you use a source if you can't read enough of the language to work out the author/date?

Because sometimes a picture IS worth a thousand words.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

English language sources A, B and C contain images of certain items pertaining to the unrevealed topic of study. Source A has an unfortunate tendency to murky black and white photos.

Japanese language sources D and E contain larger, clearer and more extensive images. Having them to cite for this project is not essential, simply would be nice to have, as I do have overlapping information in other places.