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I co-created a zine with Sam Blickhan: Speedweve for Mending (#DHMakes Methodz Zines #1). It’s a 16-page standard-size, full-color zine that introduces you to speedweve-style mending looms for fixing small holes in socks and other fabric: What are they? What’s cool about them? Why might you want to try one? How would you get started using one? I zine-ified a talk and slides by Sam Blickhan, which was part of a public maker talk series I organized this fall.
See its details page for more info, to download/print the zine, or to read it online.
With this zine, I was able to add two accessibility improvements:
- Visual accessibility test & fixes (using Canva’s tool to ID issues and improve color contrast, type size, etc.)
- A text transcript of the zine (hand-edited to make sense when read via screen reader)