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This past
week, I crocheted
a new baboon. This time, I used very coarse wool, produced by
Bedouin women in
the Negev Desert. Traditionally, the wool is used for rug
weaving, but I
decided to give it a try in crocheting.
It has many advantages, since it is very strong and
stable, and in
the sculptural crochet technique I use, it easily holds a 3D
shape, even on a
larger scale. This wool is thicker than the other types of yarn
I usually work
with, so I get the large shapes much more quickly as well, and
most of all – I like
this wool's crude appearance.
There is one major disadvantage to using it in
crochet work: It is
thick and stiff, so it requires much more effort of the hand
muscles, which
causes some pain. It became much more difficult when I had to
crochet the
smaller parts, such as the fingers, and I had to take
increasingly longer
breaks between crocheting each finger.
As I was eager to get on with the work and see my baboon
fighting the
tigers, I was looking for an immediate solution, and it was right
in front of me
– I always have some discarded fabric bands on my desk, which I
use in my
wrapping technique, so I just wrapped the crochet hook until it
was so thick
that I didn't have to bend my hand while holding it. I can't say
that it solved
all the problems, but it was much more comfortable to crochet that
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