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Rope from an Eindhoven field
The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.
The workBack to the Flax #6 (Back to the Flax collective), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nlResearch cited
- 4):233-242, doi doi.org
Other sources
- Embodied energy vibrant relations (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
- Back to the flax 6 cordage amp knotting (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
- Back to the flax 4 (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
- Back to the flax (site.ddw.nl) site.ddw.nl
- Ddw26 kazerne design lab (dutchdesigndaily.com) dutchdesigndaily.com
Images, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- A tall vessel of coarse, golden flax cord knotted into an open net, with a looping handle, against a dark backgroundPhoto: Ruud Balk/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 2
- Close view of a flax field: thin green stems topped with small round seed headsPhoto: Maria Paloma / Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 3
- A person in a field lifts a huge armful of dry flax stalks above their head, hiding their face, under a gray skyPhoto: Elisabeth Teje Duis / DDWMuseum or journal record
- Slide 4
- Diagram with two boxes on early suture materials: from plants, linen thread and cotton; from animals, gut, tendon and horsehair, and ant heads used as the first clipsImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against Atici et al., Turk J Surg 2010 (source line drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
- Slide 5
- About a dozen young adults in outdoor clothes pose together on grass in front of trees, some standing, some lying on the groundPhoto: Elisabeth Teje Duis / DDWMuseum or journal record
- Slide 6
- A dark exhibition hall with flax sculptures, sheaves and hanging fiber forms spaced across a gray floor, framed by pink and violet curtainsPhoto: Ruud Balk / Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Ring frame
- Ring system of a planetarium, tellurium and lunarium, c. 1800 to 1808, Rijksmuseum (NG-NM-11700-1)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record