Here are the Bivalves **

Here is the New Pattern for Making a Bivalve.

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The white crocheted model is this exactly. 610.

The configured white bivalves are at the end of this section.

16/8/2010 correction:- I found it is not possible to knit the pattern by following it backwards. There are 4 new ways to make this; please see a future blog in August.

1......The Original Pattern is used to create the hyperbolic fan shape:
Instructions were given April 29, 2010 and

May 25, 2010

and May 26, Variations....

Original Pattern was posted May 19, 2010.

The green one is knitted.
It begins with 610 stitches and decreases are made until 1 stitch is left..




The red and blue one is crocheted.
It begins with 1 stitch; outer edge has 610 stitches.
They will configure into spiral seashell shapes just like all the previous models.


However in Feb 2010 I found you can configure them into bivalves:-

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2...... The New Pattern at beginning of section was used to crochet the next shapes:-

There are 2 ways of configuring it:-

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An Idea: One day I (or anyone) might make a giant clam with deeply wavy lips, made in hemp string, knitted with 1 metre dowelling "knitting needles" and covered with Roman hydraulic cement (fine powdered clay and cement with minimal water added until it forms a gel= great material for sculpture.) A pinky grey satin pillow could be included for clam's inside body, and a big "pearl "could be embedded in the shell!

***** NB. As far as I am concerned, none of this work of mine is copyright.

The Fibonacci Series belongs to Great Nature and thus belongs to anyone who is interested to use it creatively and happily. Enjoy!

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We have almost completed the work on Molluscs.

I still need to do a cross section.

I am awaiting permission from the publishers to use 3 photos of seashells with identifications, from "Australian Seashores in Colour" by Keith Gillettt and John Yaldwyn, a 1969 publication, dedicated to their mentors and colleagues Elizabeth Carrinton Pope and the late Frank Alexander McNeil, from the Australian Museum.

It seems the publisher AH&W Reed may no longer exist, so it is a problem to know what to do.

There is more work to do with vortexes and ripples, using the maths of Fibonacci series to make the models. The shapes have been made, they just need to be documented as they soon will be.

I would like to digress for a while, away from the Fibonacci series, to the Bifurcating series,

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc. and to the Series which are Powers of 5 and of 10 which make very interesting models.

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