How to Make a Bilum

Step-by-Step-Instructions for GOROKA-Bilums & SIMBU-Bilums:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qb-VMFC5uDFv3j3_DzUz6c1OxPkbKJSv

[This originally appeared in the Lik Lik Buk, a populist development guide produced in Papua New Guinea in the mid-1980s -A]  

The  bilum is a traditional PNG string bag. Bilums come in a variety of  shapes and styles and are made for different purposes. Bilums are made  to carry food, to carry babies in and to use for leisure. People can  identify a person just by the creative design or style woven on the  bilum. Despite the many different aspects and purposes of bilums they  all are made from the same basic weaving method.  Bilums are  worked by forming rows of a special knot around a strip which today is  usually made of plastic packing strips but previously people used  coconut and pandanus leaves to make these strips. The strips are used to  determine the size of the stitches and help to make the job of holding  hte stitches easier. The string is owrked in short lengths as all of the  string yet to be used is fed into the existing knots. When the string  runs out a new length is tied on to the end.  You will need (beginner):  1. Some coloured string 2. Cut a piece of plastic strip about 60cm or more to form the base row. 3. Cut the other plastic strips about 30cm long. These should be the same width (about ½-1 cm)as the longer strip. 4. A pair of scissors 5.  One or two needles larger and longer than sewing needles (darning  needles). Some people use old spokes from an umbrella. (Traditionally:  bones of the  Flying Foxes )  Method:  1.  Make a loop around the plastic strip and tie with a slip knot. Pace one  end of string on the front of the plastic strip (that is the side  facing you) and hold it down with your thumb at the front and with your  forefinger at the back of the plastic strip. 2. Pull the working end over the top and then behind the plastic strip creating a loop at the top of the plastic strip. 3.  The working end is brought under the plastic strip and is fed under the  other end of the string so that the plastic strip now has a circle of  string around it. This mesh must be kept loose enough to be able to feed  the subsequent stitches into the loops of the previous ones. 4. The  working end goes over the loose end into the top loop from the left side  to the right side. It is imortant that the points where the stirng  crosses over are kept at the bottom and top of the plastic strip. The  working end foes behind the plastic strip and is fed from left to right  into the bottom loop. 5. Repeat the procedure until you reach the required length which will be the half the circumference of your bilum.   Subsequent Rows Bilums consist of a spiral of rows of meshes.  1.  Bend the plastic strip backward (away from yourself) and work the  stitch in the normal way but over the two palstic strips instead of one. 2.  Turn the pastic strip so that the back is now facing you. Make the next  stitch over the one plastic strip in the following manner. 3. Take  the working end and go over the plastic strip at the front and into the  previous stitch at the back from left to right and then into the loop of  hte stitch on the rprevious row. Pull the string behind the front  plastic strip. Continue until the second row is the same length as the  first row. These two rows mae the base of the blium. (if the plastic  strip is short slip another strip in). 4. All subsequent rows are made in the smae manner. 5. Continue the procedure until you have 18-20 rows (medium size bilum).   Mouth of the Bilum  1. Get a new piece of string and join it to the ned of the string that you used for making the body of the bilum. 2. Hold the top of the bilum facing you so that you can clearly see the top edge of the stitches forming the top row. 3.  Skip the last working stitch of the body of the bilum.Count three loops  to the front and feed the string into the thuird loop from left to  right. Make a knot. Count three loops and feed the string into the third  loop from left to right. From right to left push the string into the  knot that you made. Bring the string back towards you forming a circle. 4.  Count another three loops in front and feed the string into the third  loop. Bring the string back and feed it into the previous circle.  Continue around the mouth of the bilum. 5. When the two ends meet  feed the last stitch into the first stitch to form a continuous chian.  To finish tie a knot and cut the extra string.   Handle  Bilum  handles are sometimes made separately from the bilum and then joined  on. Others are made straight from the side of the bilum. There are many  styles but the simplest uses the same basic stitch as in the body of the  bilum.  1. Use a shorter plastic strip and make about 8-10 sitthces. 2. Use a second plastic strip. Make the next row using the same stitch. 3. Continue making rows until you reach the length of the handle you want.   Joining the Handle to the Bilum  1.  Hold the Bilum up and from the way it hangs judge where the sides are.  The handle must be attached to these points so that the bilum when it is  carried will be evenly balanced. 2. The handle and the body of the  bilum are joined together by looping stitches. It is important that the  joining stitches are made into the first row of the bilum not just into  the finishing edge of the mouth of the bilum so that your join is  strong. 3. When finished, secure with a knot.   Styles and  techniques for different patterns are constantly evolving in PNG. This  method described above is for a very basic one-colour bilum. Colours can  be added by joining different coloured strings to your working string  or depending on the complexity of your design are worked in by a method  too complicated to explain here. Far better when you have mastered the  basics to have someone who know how to show you.  Contributor: Joy Sahumlal, ATDI, Unitech, Lae, MP.  Url:

http://alex.golub.name/porgera/bilum.html

Step-by-Step-Instructions for GOROKA-Bilums & SIMBU-Bilums:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qb-VMFC5uDFv3j3_DzUz6c1OxPkbKJSv

The Prince of the Hightower and the Heir to High Tide

Artist: erchitos

is this your card? ♦️♣️♥️♠️ it isnt but you dont wanna hurt his feelings

Vivzepop when she looking for Broadway actors and celebrities to voice act her characters

joey after the 2-1 OT win to push a game 6!!!🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

НИКОГДА НЕ УМЕРЕТЬ

wip - probably not gonna finish this cause im not super into outis' posing??? but I really like the idea of ishamel rescuing outis out at sea pre-limbus

im writing the fanfiction in my brain - they can fight the outskirts monsters + the awful people in their lives together <3 I want that initial 0 trust but tolerable to allies to friends to lovers for them so bad

Six Sentences Sunday! On Monday! Or Sunday still if you're in Hawaii.

Note to self: Do not try to write and do a WIP post on Tumblr in the same night. It won't happen. (Sigh.)

Thank you @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @katmiscellanious, @shrekgogurt, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, and @rimeswithpurple for the tags today! I'm looking forward to reading/seeing what everyone is working on! Also thank you to everyone who's tagged me since my last Sunday post. Even when I can't post, I love tags - they help make sure I see the posts I really want to see.

I'm still (slowly) plugging away at my "Embrace the Silence" WIP. (Which has a dozen titles, depending on what song I'm listening to at the given moment.) Basics: Canon divergence fic exploring the ramifications of Baz successfully stealing Simon's voice in fifth year.

Side note: I got to see the touring company of Hamilton on Friday, and this whole setup gives me serious A. Burr/A. Ham vibes. But I could be projecting XD

13 whole sentences because it's gotta cover two whole weeks most likely. >.> (Fiona is driving Baz back to Watford. Reluctantly. As is her way.)

“It’s enemy territory,” she said after a minute, ignoring a stop sign, and forgoing the use of her turn signal. “The Mage had you kidnapped by numpties. Morgana only knows what he could try next, and you’re stuck in a bloody masochistic haze of self-destruction.” She wasn't entirely wrong, on either point. The Mage truly does resent my continued existence. It’s his right. The one thing, perhaps, we both agree on. “What if I’m simply keeping my enemies close,” I said, doing my best to stretch my leg out in the cramped backseat. “And how exactly did you determine the Mage’s culpability in my kidnapping?” She shrugged, meeting my eyes briefly in the rearview mirror. “Why wouldn’t it be him. He’s capable of anything.” So are we.

I promise/hope really hard my fic won't be all angst, all the time. Levity happens when I'm able to spend time writing, getting into character, writing daily - things I'm not quite able to do yet. (Probably because I'm on Tumblr and Discord too much. It's basically the trolley problem on a less life-threatening scale.) So for now, it's angst, relatively pure and uncut.

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No for real, even though I didn't get to see it, the idea of Morgan Rielly crosschecking someone in the neck out of anger just screams that he's at a breaking point. That'd be like Willy punching someone in the face, unprovoked. Or Mitch slamming someone's head into the boards on purpose. It just doesn't happen unless something else is going on.

And I don't defend cheap-shots like that (no, not even when my guys do it), but it's hard to pretend like I don't understand why he did it.

I'm not a doomer by any means, but it feels like everyone on this team is teetering very close to the edge of insanity.

Shout-out to Lilienne, The Net Picker. I also love the sea, swords, and philosophising about the sun so if you're ever looking to remarry just know I'd be a hot step-parent.

Well our autism kinda helped lol, we hyper fixated on mental disorders and were SUPER into DID cause.. how did that happen!? So our host was looking into it, and it felt similar to their experiences. Especially because we had experiences of getting suspended for attacking others, but the memories felt not like the host's and were fading very quickly. They then discovered two others, one being responsible for the attacks, and the other.. existing. The host did some really weird stuff[cant blame them, it was just figuring out how to communicate] but then just fell out of it. Then they picked it back up, fixed up everything, and were back on system discovery.

I could continue on about our whole system experiences and discovery and everything but that would be super long and probably annoying..

Also talk as you want<3 If you wanna be yourself go for it!!

-🌙🦋

NOOOOO, NOT ANNOYING!!!

It's interesting to hear about it.

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//This is VERY FREAKING interesting! Because OUR host didn't recognize us at all for who we were. I mean, yeah, they gave us "names" to distinguish between "emotional states & traits" & tried to process memories with us, writing little stories with us, helping them in their thoughts, memories & stuff.

We dont have strong amnesiac barriers between us, but we have emotional barriers. We also experience a lot of timeloss & greyout amnesia.

The host imagined me (in their story) as the hyperactive, cheery queen of imagination! The charming social butterfly, the annoying one, the show-off. And yeah, thats kinda correct. Guess you could say they knew... subconsciously. :D

Yeee, it was funny when they realized we were REAL.

ACTUALLY, the Turtle Net helped with that. They didn't remember having posted stuff because it had been us, haha & a friend nudged us in the right direction.//

i have an app that tracks the bus and my chariot has rotated 180° twice for seemingly no reason and has been 8 mins away for the past 7 mins

fuck it. put the EBUG in

the humiliation of carrying a single large object. the freedom of carrying two large objects

swapping out actors is very par for the course for a daytime soap but there's something very ... meaningful about it in this show, where everyone exactly resembles an ancestor, and those resemblances are significant to their identity and place in the world, while keeping a face unchanged through the centuries announces you as a harbinger of doom. we have known from the moment barnabas arrives that he is the ancestor in the portrait. we know that cassandra is angelique, because her similarly enduring face reveals her intentions. ancient loves are found and lost again through resemblances. victoria's identity is made and unmade in it over and over again.