2024 Tempestry Project
Scroll down to see updated images of our Tempestry project.
Our Bead in Hand community is always inspiring us. We have an interesting conversation with a customer and think, "hey, we can do that too!" Sometimes, we actually get around to it.
From Wikipedia -- “The Tempestry Project is a collaborative fiber arts project that presents global warming data in visual form through knitted or crocheted artwork. The project is part of a larger ‘data art’ movement and the developing field of climate change art, which seeks to exploit the human tendency to value personal experience over data by creating accessible experiential representations of the data.
Tempestries are made by knitting or crocheting rows in specified colors that represent respective high temperatures each day for a year.”
Tempestries are made by knitting or crocheting rows in specified colors that represent respective high temperatures each day for a year.”
But we work with beads…
Using a loom and size 6/0 seed beads, we will chart the high temperature in Oak Park for every day of 2024. Each of our chosen bead colors represents a 5 degree temperature span and our “feeling” for that temperature, meaning you won’t see red on a cold day.
We have the project set up on the back table; take a look at it when shopping. And as we really aren't too far into 2024, maybe you'll decide to start your own Tempestry.
Using a loom and size 6/0 seed beads, we will chart the high temperature in Oak Park for every day of 2024. Each of our chosen bead colors represents a 5 degree temperature span and our “feeling” for that temperature, meaning you won’t see red on a cold day.
We have the project set up on the back table; take a look at it when shopping. And as we really aren't too far into 2024, maybe you'll decide to start your own Tempestry.
“Field Notes”
A month into our project, it was suggested to us that we run a parallel charting of temperatures from thirty years ago. Bead in Hand opened in November of 1993 so the narrow tempestry represents the first full calendar year that the shop was open. Hello 1994!
A month into our project, it was suggested to us that we run a parallel charting of temperatures from thirty years ago. Bead in Hand opened in November of 1993 so the narrow tempestry represents the first full calendar year that the shop was open. Hello 1994!
