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The wife said, a while back, that she wanted a "small, circular footstool".
Well circles aren't really my thing, but, after a while the idea of making it from 8 pieces in the form of a hexagon popped into my head. A few years back I enjoyed some of my "stitch" work, so I decided it would be interesting to combine the two ideas. I messed about on paper, and I messed about some more, but something just wasn't quite right. And then the idea of using the I Ching hexagram (wikipedia)) for the stitches popped into my head…
Yang (male) is usually represented by a solid line, and yin (female) by a broken line, but, after deep philosophical analysis I decided that it need not necessarily be so, and so this piece came to pass.
I'd originally intended to "circularify" the table (I even had a way I was going to do that), but it just didn't seem like the right thing to do.
The wife, upon seeing it, agreed that no way could it be covered with a cushion and used for feet, as originally intended, and that it was clearly a table!
9mm ply (doubled in the legs), mahogany and ash for yin and yang, walnut veneer centrepiece, finished with linseed oil.
Height 36cm, width 46cm.
Well circles aren't really my thing, but, after a while the idea of making it from 8 pieces in the form of a hexagon popped into my head. A few years back I enjoyed some of my "stitch" work, so I decided it would be interesting to combine the two ideas. I messed about on paper, and I messed about some more, but something just wasn't quite right. And then the idea of using the I Ching hexagram (wikipedia)) for the stitches popped into my head…
Yang (male) is usually represented by a solid line, and yin (female) by a broken line, but, after deep philosophical analysis I decided that it need not necessarily be so, and so this piece came to pass.
I'd originally intended to "circularify" the table (I even had a way I was going to do that), but it just didn't seem like the right thing to do.
The wife, upon seeing it, agreed that no way could it be covered with a cushion and used for feet, as originally intended, and that it was clearly a table!
9mm ply (doubled in the legs), mahogany and ash for yin and yang, walnut veneer centrepiece, finished with linseed oil.
Height 36cm, width 46cm.