Fan-tache-tic
(Mackintaches: Glasgow, Scotland)
Yesterday I was employed with many different job strains; dropping off some items in a charity shop, running to the printers for an NHS project, having some photos printed, delivering my first set of acrylic ‘taches to the Art School and working on the second (larger) set of felt ones. This is what they look like halfway through the process; I cut the felt using a laser cutter into these amusing moustache shapes, then thread elastic through each one. This is where we are at this point – in total I made seventy-five of these little guys. Today I will be knotting each one and then tucking them around postcards of a man’s chin. It all sounds very silly indeed. By looking on my site and scrolling down this page you’ll see what they look like when finished. Ying and I used to make them together, but now that he has a full time job in China, the baton falls to me. This will be the first complete set I have made alone, as long as we don’t count Radio Four in the background.
Anyway, to explain the moustaches, the Art School shop stocks them since the Art School building itself was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, famed for many things; one of which is his smart moustache. We hit on the idea of making Charles Rennie Mackintaches one Christmas and they sold like hotcakes from a student shop. The Art School called for a meeting with us – which we imagined would see us sued for breach of copyright – but instead they put in an order for some. Here I am over four years later, still supplying them. I hope to retire on them one day.
– Today Rosie is (of course) knotting Mackintaches and going to a Joy Dunlop concert in Glasgow, Scotland –
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