Fifty Shirts of Gray

Projects
Participants	Becha
Skills	Sewing
Status	Finished
Niche	Sewing
Purpose	Fun

Destined for OHM2013.nl -- I want to make a workshop for collecting T-shirts, collaborative sewing, and making a HUGE quilt out of the old, geeky T-shirts!

Description

Geeky T-shirts come mainly in black and white, but, with age and nonchalant washing practices, they end up in being in the *Fifty Shades of Gray*.

Quilt will be 5x10 field of patches of T-shirt cut-outs, ranging form black to white, and with 8 more columns in between.

Details

It's happening at OHM!

T-shit-flag will be made prior or at this summer's Dutch hackers camping event OHM2913: http://OHM2013.nl

T-shirts needed!!

Please send your old, geeky, grey T-shirts to us!

Shipping address

Shipping address: Vesna , Singel 258, 1016 A'dam, NL

Inspiration

Work in Progress

First 25 shirts, modeled on the (h)ACTA floor, end-June 2013

Brainstorm

• We might include some BDSM practices in the workshop, too ;-)
  • ripping the t-shirts instead of cutting?
  • making the blind-folds of the black t-shirts?
  • mod shirts with zippers, nails, safety pins
• Get the "50 shades of grayscale" picture as a logo ;-)
• With this theme we should/could do something with leather
  • leather wristbands with nails (e.g text TechInc)
  • or wristbands with LEDs
• On the safe side: pillow, bag, sleeve, book cover, kite

Participants

• Becha (organiser)

Prior work examples

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/w6l.jpg & http://blogger.xs4all.nl/becha/archive/2012/06/05/766224.aspx

http://becha.home.xs4all.nl/been_there-done_that-got_a_t-shirt.jpg &

Related projects

T-shirts_hacking

References

Ironic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Shades_of_Gray