Khadi in Class

In week 4 of Making Social Change, we talked about Indian independence, and about the emblematic role of khadi – handspun and hand-woven cloth – in the movement. Building upon the prototype Erica Tyler (Anthropology) developed as part of the Making Across the Curriculum faculty maker academy of summer 2016, and on our preview event from spring 2017, students created drop spindles using dowels, hooks, and laser cut whorls.

Erica made herself available to talk about “women’s work” in the Archeological record, and showed students how to spin roving into yarn.

With any luck, the community loom will soon have a bit more handspun yarn added to it.