{"id":9581,"date":"2021-08-03T08:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:56:39","slug":"pina-cloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/03\/pina-cloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi\u00f1a cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did I mention my obsessive brainstorming for new research zines; have I said that I was working on a zine for pineapples?  Well, beyond finding recipes for wine and vinegar, I have also found that pineapple plants, their leaves specifically, are used to make cloth.  In the Phillipines, where most Pi\u00f1a cloth is currently made, it has been used to make the traditional Barong tagalog as well as embroidered kerchiefs and shawls (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi%C3%B1a \\\">Wikipedia<\/a>).  The Pi\u00f1a cloth produced in the Phillipines is made via a time consuming manual process.  It is often woven with silk to give it a nicer drape.  Whether with silk or without, it is an oddly translucent and beautiful cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"850\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yRvWiiGoOzI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I mention my obsessive brainstorming for new research zines; have I said that I was working on a zine for pineapples? Well, beyond finding recipes for wine and vinegar, I have also found that pineapple plants, their leaves specifically, are used to make cloth. In the Phillipines, where most Pi\u00f1a cloth is currently made,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/03\/pina-cloth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pi\u00f1a cloth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[295,123],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-pineapple","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8269,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/7-stages-of-pineapple\/","url_meta":{"origin":9581,"position":0},"title":"7 stages of pineapple","author":"leems","date":"July 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It should be of no surprise that I am once again talking about pineapples. I remember our first attempts at yarding after buying the house. I made a hesitant identification of some spiny, succulent like, grasses planted against the house. 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I am fascinated by Daguerreotype and silver prints.\u00a0 Did you know that Daguerreotypes captured the weave\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3638,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/new-story-peachtree-on-the-bean\/","url_meta":{"origin":9581,"position":2},"title":"New Story: &#8220;Peachtree&#8221; on the Bean","author":"leems","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Another story that I had been sitting on is up on the Bean, only not completely sitting.\u00a0 I printed up some copies of \"Peachtree\" one year for Christmas and bound them and made cloth covers and gave them away.\u00a0 I didn't manage to make one for my own shelves, though.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10367,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/an-eddy-that-pulls-you-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":9581,"position":3},"title":"An eddy that pulls you down","author":"leems","date":"October 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Burlesque Feast by Frans Verbeeck 1510-1570 You see before you a picture that seems to be depicting a wedding feast. 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