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Pawtucket - A Steel Bobbin sculpture reaching 22 feet tall and weighing about 2,000 pounds was installed on the grounds of Slater old mill site on Roosevelt Avenue last Friday.
A large crane Company Registration Dexter lowered the monumental work entitled "The duck" for its shape, as one of the last stages of the ambitious "Weaving the Blackstone" the initiative of the art.
The colorful sculpture, painted turquoise with a red ball on top, was created by Pawtucket-based artist Donald Gerola. It becomes the focal point of the "Weaving the Blackstone" have characteristics that fiber ropes stretched across Blackstone River banks face a celebration geometric historic role of the city in the manufacture of fibers.
"It's beyond what we expected," said John Baxter, president of the Pawtucket Arts Festival.
The huge Steel Bobbincoils complete the sculpture of Steel Bobbin mill Gerola loaned to the city several years ago. This sculpture overlooking the river on the bank opposite the side of Slater Mill. The bobbin is attached by ropes over the fiber plant Slater.
According Gerola, installing fiber is the first time a river in the United States was "woven" by an American artist.
The Pawtucket Arts Festival commissioned Gerola project with payment $ 17 000. The installation of fiber includes more than 80 strands of colored fiber, manufactured by Pawtucket-based NeoCorp to create geometric weaves over the river. It is intended to celebrate the role of Slater Mill in the first successful cotton mill using hydropower in the United States, giving rise to the American Industrial Revolution in 1793.
The installation also has the history of Pawtucket as a center of manufacturing tools and mechanical engineering. As part of the project, a braiding machine 100 years made by Wardwell Braid, Central Falls, has been renovated to weave the fibers.
The "Weaving the Blackstone" installation is privately funded by the Arts Festival Pawtucket, Slater Mill, Schofield Printing and NeoCorp.
