Footage from ‘The Saga of Macramé Park’ by Ben Van Meter, documenting the epic macramé playground created by master weaver Alexandra Hart (also author of the far-out denim-art classic, ‘Native Funk & Flash‘).
After a year spent getting approvals, Alexandra and her apprentice from the Baulines Craft Guild, along with dozens of volunteers and friends, spent several months collectively hand-weaving hundreds of feet of heavy rope onto sturdy driftwood logs recovered from the beach.
The playground was located next to the Bolinas Community Public Utility District building and opened in August 1974. It brought joy to children through much of the rest of the ’70s until a vandal cut the structural ropes, rendering it unsafe and needing to be dismantled.
You can watch full film here.
