I {Heart} hand me downs and spinning in the snow.<br /><br />
If a tree falls in a forest with no one to witness it...do the other trees laugh?
If a tree falls in a forest with no one to witness it...do the other trees laugh?
Written by: Pele
We always say..."wear natural fibres and you won't get burned". Yup, that's what we say.
So I was thinking about this the other day and grabbed bunches of different kinds of fabrics, a candle and Whipping Boy and we headed onto my front porch. Then I found some others materials and continued the experiments...
Here is what we found when I held the fabrics directly over the flame, the equivalent to a move gone wrong....
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Lightweight Cotton/Gauze: up in flames in three seconds
Middle Weight Cotton(like a cheap t-shirt, not really tightly woven): up in flames in 3seconds
Tight Woven Cotton (a nice t-shirt): up in flames in 6 seconds BUT once it was up in flames it was hell to put out..it just kept going. At first is smoldered to a little brown mark so we thought it wasn't going to go, then it burst into flames, literally! We did this a few times just to make certain.
Tight Woven Heavy Cotton (Like Khaki pants): left it there 10 seconds and it didn't go up in flames but after 10 it would've. That was the point at which the brown scorch mark was working through the material.
Denim (without frays): held it there for 10 seconds (if you're safety hasn't put you out by then you have big problems anyway). It left little black soot marks that wiped off.
Cotton Corduroy: Held it there 10 seconds. It scorched abit because of the loose fibers being raised up but once it made it past those it didn't go.
Wool (Light grade, loose weave): 10 seconds until scorch, much like the tight weave cotton.
Wool (heavy grade, like a blanket): Worked better than denim.
Flax (it tends to be light and airy, like a cotton): 3 seconds and it was history.
Silk (the shiny, light refined stuff): It lasted about 5 seconds before it frizzled into a tiny flame.
Raw Silk (the course, heavier one): This held up to a count of 8 seconds before it smoldered fiber by fiber...but it never really went poof.
Leather: It doesn't actually burn, it more curls up into this little black roll, and that was the edge of the light weight leather after about 20 seconds (I was really curious with this one). The center never went up.
Moral of the story is that not *all* natural fibers are acceptable to spin in. The lighter the fabric and the looser the weave, the faster it goes up.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Written by: TheBovrilMonkey
Basically, remember it's fire and don't be stupid - it'll burn you if you let it.
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
O.B.E.S.E.
Owned by Mynci!
Written by: Enkeli
I hope this isn't a repeat post, and sorry if it's in the wrong place!!
I'm a bit worried!! I recently got some fire poi and want to spin them as part of my end-of-year project on Circus which is in two weeks. (the project is a big year long thing we do at Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf schools and is very important for passing our steiner certificate). I've spun my comet poi for a while and can link several moves but not all that many (I'm not very quick at picking up new ones), and sometimes the poi hit me, but I rarely get tangled on the moves I know. How can I tell if it would be dangerous for me to spin fire poi? Also, does anyone have any tips for choreographing? At the moment I just stand there and spin them, can't think of any way to move apart from walking forward and back and turning round!!!
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