Technique
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Starting with a map, and guidelines.

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Draw the map on black board, and then silver leafing the areas of water.

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Coloring the different zones of desert and jungle and savannah with colored pencil.

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Laying out the warp images, cut from 1920s elementary geography textbooks.

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No strip goes the full length of the picture, they start and stop, and shift.

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The warp is done.

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Weaving the weft in from the sides, and then finishing the edges.

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Finished piece: Alexis’s Africa, Scott Bodenheimer 2012, woven color plates, 12" x 9", 23 x 30cm