A community tapestry

Are you more a maker than a talker? Are you a visual communicator? Would you prefer to channel your creativity energies outside the limelight? Perhaps you just have some hilarious/inspirational/educational artifacts (digital or analog) around that you think should be part of the N&N cultural tapestry.

Well, this is your lucky day! Threads aren’t just about giving talks and occupying center stage—there are other ways to help create the fabric of our society!

Inspired by friends who invited guests to contribute pieces for a wedding quilt (like the one at left, used as the huppah in the Jewish ceremony), we invite you to help us piece together a visual representation of our community.

To adapt this tradition to our guests’ presumed constraints of time and textile-wrangling talents, we will construct a paper-based tapestry together on-site during the wedding weekend. To cater to our interest in hexagonal tesselation, we will use hexagonal tapestry pieces (see below for dimensions).

We invite you to create a hexagon tile for the N&N tapestry—where the word create and its associated terms creative and creativity are the operative words. If you‘d like a bit more guidance, we suggest that your hexagon:

• represent YOU, in whatever way you’d like
• express (perhaps schematically) what YOU bring to our community
• express (perhaps schematically) your most salient connections to N&N

In other words, it’s all about YOU!

• Our default size will be a hexagon that can fit on a letter-sized page. Please see this sample template for the precise dimensions. Note that you may also start with a square or any other shape, as long as it fits into your default hexagon.
• You can make several hexagons, or one creation spanning multiple hexagons!
• You can print out a physical hexagon and bring it to the wedding or you can make it on-site. Click the button below if you want to let us know what's coming.
• If you can't make it to the NNWW, you can submit a PDF of something that fits in the template, also by clicking the button below. PDFs should be submitted by June 1 if you want them to appear in the tapestry.
• Please let us know that you are planning to contribute a hexagon by clicking the button below.

(AKA everything else: other digital or analog artifacts, virtual or tangible)

Do you have any hilarious photos or embarrassing videos you can dig up; a recipe, book, poem or quotation you think N&N would or should particularly appreciate? A puzzle you‘d like to construct, game to share, other non-hexagonal, non-tapestry-based artwork to display? Are you looking for an excuse to engage in wanton craftiness? We welcome all these loose threads too!