Day 6

Plan:

-make a larger prototype for the lamp as Jenny suggested, with the women from the workshop.

-Figure out the holder and the three sizes i want , as well as colours.

- Grind paper pulp bad prepare

Preparation:

make the pattern cut outs on newspaper for the lamps.

get a holder

research lamp holder possibilities

measure holders available

-get a large tub, deckle and mesh

add some chlorine to the paper pulp early in the morning so that we can make paper by the evening.

Afternoon: -make paper from the pulp we made, sticking to small sheets to start with.

lamp planning- inspired from the banana flower.

-cheap

-no complex holder design as its difficult to find a fabricator

-use waste materials lying around in the workshop

These i think will look nice in a bunch hanging in the corner of a room. They could be made in three different sizes and a slight variation in colour could be used.

Although i knew i wouldn't have time on this trip to really do any serious paper making , some of the women at the workshop seemed extremely excited about making some, so we decided to do some paper making from the pulp we had created. Slowly all the women left other things they were doing came to make a sheet of paper!

extracting banana fibre

making paper

our drying bowls look nice and seem to be becoming stronger.

We realise now that even though there is hardly any sun, the containers seem to be drying slowly, and it isn't really a problem. It just means that someone needs to shift them in and out every once in a way.