Working towards our exhibition - 18th June, 2019


Weaving families
We shall be displaying our weaver sculptures in our exhibition and today we spent the afternoon drawing weaver people who will be part of that display.

We reminded ourselves what life was like nearly two hundred years ago and drew facial expressions - some happy - some sad.









We also discussed the design for our banner and laid the fabric on the floor and helped to start to draw out the design in pencil on the material.


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