![]() ![]() But I have excellent hand skills, and years of training and experience in making art someone with less experience could easily take two hours to get that far.) But most of what would be exposed would be those two flaps of fabric, as you can see in the photograph below: Ultimately, I suppose you could draw designs over the entire piece of fabric. Next I drew a design on the final flap of fabric that would be folded over her body. Instead, she let me draw an abstract design within an oval shape: After flipping the corners back down, I used a pencil to make faint lines about where I folded the fabric then when I started drawing, I knew about where to draw the designs.Ĭarol wanted to draw a face, but I said that would be far too difficult. I flipped up the corner down by her feet first, folded over one side then the other side, and finally flipped the top corner down over her face. And if I were making one for myself - Carol’s five foot nine inches tall, but I’m six foot five - I’d probably want a 110 inch square of fabric.)Ĭarol lay on the cloth diagonally. ![]() (But if I were to do this again, I’d use a 90 inch square. We wrapped Carol up in the muslin to see how much cloth was needed, and discovered that 2 yards of 110 inch fabric worked. So we went down to Joanne Fabric and got 3 yards of 90 inch-wide unbleached cotton muslin, and a couple dozen different colored fabric markers. ![]() Tonight, Carol and I decided to play around with some materials and try a few things out. will offer a workshop on Saturday called “It’s a Wrap: Design Your Own Burial Shroud.” The point of the workshop is not to make the actual shroud you’re going to be buried in, but to start thinking about a design for something that you’d like to be wrapped up in after you die. A week-long event called “Reimagine End of Life” is taking place in San Francisco right now. ![]()
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