PONG in the Shadows
As summers keep getting hotter, shade is especially important on a PONG day. We often set up our kiosk in open areas where the sun beats down mercilessly. So, we had to get some sun sails!
The first two sails were made in-house: The blue fabric featuring the dragon kite and the yellow splashes of color were gifted to us by a lovely local from the fair city (thank you!!). Paired with some old bed sheets and leftover fabric from our own stash, we created our very first sunshades.
Die Nähtechnik ist inspiriert von ostasiatischem Patchwork – unter den Begriffen Boro (Japan) oder Jogakbo (Korea) findet ihr schöne Beispiele. Dieser englische Artikel beschreibt das koreanische Jogakbo ziemlich genau. Dabei werden leichte Stoffe traditionell mit der Hand vernäht, sodass sowohl Ober- als auch Unterseite sauber verarbeitet sind. Wenn das Licht durch das Textil scheint, treten die Nähte als grafisches Raster hervor. Diese Art zu nähen entstand aus der Notwendigkeit heraus, Stoffreste weiter nutzen zu können.
We took the easy route and stitched French seams with the sewing machine. You can find a great English tutorial to follow along with right here:
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A little planning sketch helped us with the initial assembly of the fabric pieces. We sewed together a large (almost) square piece measuring about 3.5 x 3.5 meters and then cut it diagonally. Triangles are much easier to stretch out than a floppy square – and just like that, we had two sails ready to go!
The edges are reinforced with 5 cm wide polyester webbing. To attach the sails, we simply sewed cords into the corners and sourced some used tarp poles from camping supplies.
Since the shade is still not quite enough, sewing sun sails has now become part of our open offerings at the kiosk.
