{"id":3630,"date":"1997-06-30T18:47:00","date_gmt":"1997-06-30T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spes.mu\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2021-03-25T19:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T19:01:30","slug":"weaving-on-portable-loom-of-coconut-fibres-and-other-local-natural-fibres-spes-is-30-years-old-photo-of-the-month-local-stunning-glass-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/1997\/06\/30\/weaving-on-portable-loom-of-coconut-fibres-and-other-local-natural-fibres-spes-is-30-years-old-photo-of-the-month-local-stunning-glass-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving on portable loom of coconut fibres and other local natural fibres &#8211; SPES is 30 years old! &#8211; Photo of the month: Local stunning glass recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This month we are focusing on handloom weaving, which SPES introduced in our Island only twenty-five years ago, this may seem strange to cybernauts, who live in countries that have been practising traditional weaving for thousands of years\u2026 To be noted that all the SPES Masterweavers always draw the attention of their new trainees to the natural intertwined fibre of the Coconut Tree, as depicted on the photo of some of our basic weavings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living in a tropical climate, we enjoy weaving mostly outdoors on a portable loom, that has braille signs on its roller beam, so that even the blind can learn to weave. We like to use all sorts of natural fibres such as raphia, vacoas, sisal, cotton, silk, recycled fabrics and the new generation of man-made mixed and therapeutic yarns such as anti-stress or anti-pain yarns that contains copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco-1024x745.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3631\" width=\"512\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco-80x58.jpg 80w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/coco.jpg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">June 1997 marks the SPES 30th Anniversary<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 30 years of devoted non-profit vocational Art &amp; Crafts work, perhaps the most stimulating events are taking place now, that so many of us are communicating and learning-sharing through cyberspace, that eliminates distance problems and equalises information access within a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SPES hosts MACOSS event<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mark the International Environment Day on June 5th, we were pleased to host for NGO MACOSS (Mauritius Council of Social Service) a &#8220;Green tea-party&#8221; at which they distributed, with the collaboration of Australia, Compost Bins for 40 NGOs to reduce pollution and enrich the soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On that occasion the hundred guests viewed SPES CD-ROMs on Flower and Vegetables planting, on 3D Garden Design and also on tree-growing, as many organisation engage in &#8220;Nature Crafts&#8221; and ecological activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Day of the African Child<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 16th June, the Day of the African Child , SPES participated at a national festive function for young teenagers, where we ran four Creative Craft corners on: Pottery, Weaving, Cake-making and Icing Decoration and Computer free-hand painting, the latter being the most popular Creative Workshop, as we were able to initiate over 500 young teenagers in computer graphics, with all its endless &#8220;magic&#8221; tools possibilities!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital Photo of the month<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep to environmentally-friendly activities, our digital photograph of the month is a small window screen, with recycled glass panes, made from fused patchwork designs from broken glass. SPES also makes decorative floral glass panes for garden lamps, which are framed in our Metal Training Workshop and light up the tropical vegetation of our luxuriant Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED-739x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3632\" width=\"370\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED-58x80.jpg 58w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FUSED.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Informations compl\u00e9mentaires sur le concours de fabrication de jouets repr\u00e9sentant des animaux<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">at the special request of young French-speaking cybernauts a french version<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CANDIDATURES<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les candidatures doivent \u00eatre address\u00e9s d\u00e8s maintenant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>par la poste: c\/o SPES<\/li><li>7 avenue Labourdonnais Quatre Bornes<\/li><li>Ile Maurice, Oc\u00e9an Indien<\/li><li>par E mail \u00e0: spes@bow.intnet.mu<\/li><li>par Fax: (230) 424 2960<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">REGLEMENT<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Age concern\u00e9: 3 &#8211; 12 ans<\/li><li>Les animaux qui seront les personnages d&#8217;une histoire ou d&#8217;un sketch, peuvent \u00eatre fabriqu\u00e9s avec n&#8217;importe quel mat\u00e9riau<\/li><li>Le texte doit faire r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense de l&#8217;environnement.<\/li><li>Ce texte d&#8217;une longueur maximum de trois pages 21\/29,7 cm imprim\u00e9es devra \u00eatre envoy\u00e9 avec les images et documents qui l&#8217;accompagnent \u00e0 SPES, au mois de f\u00e9vrier 1998 seulement.<\/li><li>Les inscriptions doivent \u00eatre envoy\u00e9es d\u00e8s maintenant.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CANDIDATURES<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/form.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/form.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/form-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/spes.mu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/form-68x80.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DATE LIMITE D&#8217;ENVOI DES DOCUMENTS<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Histoire, texte, photos couleurs, n\u00e9gatifs, diapositives (qui pourront \u00eatre num\u00e9ris\u00e9s si n\u00e9cessaire par SPES): le 28 f\u00e9vrier 1998<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RESULTATS DU CONCOURS<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les gagnants seront avertis par le jury international la derni\u00e8re semaine d&#8217;avril 1998<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May This month we are focusing on handloom weaving, which SPES introduced in our Island only twenty-five years ago, this may seem strange to cybernauts, who live in countries that have been practising traditional weaving for thousands of years\u2026 To be noted that all the SPES Masterweavers always draw the attention of their new trainees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-monthly-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3636,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spes.mu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}