More shoes, Pantone art, The Crown

Yesterday I discovered this wonderful native American archaeologist, on YouTube, showing how to make sandals from broad leaf yucca, with laces from narrow leaf yucca. 

See her video for the whole process which you can definitely do if you have access to yucca, which I don't. 

It's very thoughtful and takes the foot, size, pressures in different parts of the sole, need for protection from sharp rocks, all that, into account. Shoes for dry country.

And she makes the cordage for the laces more simply than the Sally Pointer neolithic approach. Instead of twisting then bending one group over the other, she starts with the u shape but rolls the two sides in parallel, then lets them curl up together 

I had to try this, looked so labor saving. Forgetting that she's a lifelong expert, with literally thousands of years of family experience.

So I tried with daylily leaves

Best I could do. Then I tried the paleolithic way

This worked better. It occurs to me that I can make shoelaces like this for sneakers. Hm.

I haven't made it to the thriftie yet, driving not quite ready, but there will be leather slippers in my future, maybe with daylily thongs to fasten them.

This weekend, though, the library is in range, and today I'm picking up The Crown, season four. I seem to remember giving up on season three after the Aberfan episode, too much like voyeurism. But we'll see about season four. 

And today's art is the ever changing display of accordion books, this one the Pantone collection

Happy day everyone, I guess it's the weekend though my days don't vary that much.