kaite - partially revealed wraps

I thought it was about time i tried to get across the paddock to look at the wraps there so took a trial walk but only got half way, the going was very rough - this pic below is the way ahead and about where i stopped, not much of a path is it..... and when i turned around this was the way back home, see below,

Help, beam me up scottie!

So instead i removed the last remaining wraps around the garden. This one above and below was deliberately placed over a borer hole so that the sap would ooze out and stain the cloth.....

i think it did that quite well plus a bit of dirt and mould for good measure. I haven't washed them yet, they are just rolled up in the garage. I'll get back to them later, oh and BTW, in case you're wondering, the tree is looking quite healthy despite the borer hole.

And this piece of dupioni below was wrapped around the silver birch, resulting in just a touch of green mould plus the dirt of course. As i commented before, i think it has to do with the type of trees and whether they seep out gum/sap from the bark, which quite obviously some "gum" trees, eucalypts, do more than the European deciduous trees. I don't think it's a weather thing except of course that sap is more abundant in the Summer than in the Winter.

I have decided to leave the blog open for now, so if any or all of you want to leave your wraps in place and report later then that's ok, and also if anyone wants to make a leaf dyed bundle from their wrap or even stitch an artcloth then that's ok too. Please can we continue to restrict ourselves to our own work tho.

It's been an absolute pleasure to host this experimental tree wrapping blog, i thank you all for participating so far and no matter what results you have found on your wraps - that was the original intention - just to see what happens.

Postscript: i'll continue to try to get across the paddock but i'll leave it for a couple of weeks, those thistles left a lot of holes in my legs.

cheers, kaite