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After the thorny strip is removed from each side, the pineapple leaf is laid upon a board and scraped to remove the pulp and reveal the fiber. Coarse white fibers called bastos are peeled away and used to make twine. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.

Craftspeople gently wash the pineapple fibers under running water or in a stream or river to prevent tangles. Any remaining pulp is removed, and the fibers are then dried in the sun. Shorter or damaged fibers are carefully extracted from the bundle. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.

In the 1860s, Minton & Company, a major English ceramic producer whose wares ranged from affordable transferware to hand-decorated porcelain and large-scale monumental design, acquired books of Japanese birds and flowers. This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.

See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillippines This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.

See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkUbag #Japonisme #Japan #Design #Minton #ceramics This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.

The manufacture of pineapple fibers into cloth in the Philippines is a centuries-old enterprise that remains virtually unchanged, despite efforts to mechanize the industry. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 12, 2022.

“Bamboo & Fan” is one of several Minton patterns that use the same fan template as a frame for different bird motifs. #Japonisme #Japan #Design #Minton This tweet was posted on July 11, 2022.

"Waiting" is a photographic close-up of five figures involved in the familiar yet deeply symbolic drama of waiting in an airport for the return of loved ones. The photograph was translated into a digital image with each pixel represented by a one-inch mosaic tile. #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 13, 2022.

Adverse publicity from an ill-planned ad campaign, along with stiff competition on the California corridor from other airlines ultimately led Pacific to seek out a merger with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West in 1968. #DefunctThursday #PacificAirlines This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.

In 1958, the carrier rebranded itself as Pacific Air Lines, and updated its Navajo-inspired thunderbird logo to a bright and modern, red, white, and blue depiction. In 1965, Pacific began leasing two Boeing 727 jet airliners and placed orders for four more. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.

Pacific Air Lines began as a business endeavor to train pilots during World War II. Based in San Francisco, the airline began commercial commuter passenger operations as Southwest Airways in 1946. #DefunctThursday #PacificAirlines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 14, 2022.

In 1912, Bernetta Adams Miller became the fifth woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot’s license. She became the first woman aviator and the first person to demonstrate a monoplane to the U.S. government when she flew a Moisant/Bleriot for the U.S. Army in 1912. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.

Last month, Kari Orvik visited the airport to give a short talk on her photographs displayed in “Geneva”, an ongoing photography series that offers a glimpse into San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood at the corner of Mission Street and Geneva Avenue. #Photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.

The “Geneva” series is a personal inquiry & a poetic interpretation of place across multiple photographic formats. #KariOrvik uses 19th century wet plate collodion processes on metal & glass plates, traditional black & white & color film, as well as digital formats. #Photography This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.

“What would you take with you if you had to leave home and could only take three things?” This was the question asked of beginning sculpture students at Notre Dame Belmont. Each student designed a piece of luggage with three meaningful objects to place inside. #studentart This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.

📸: Bernetta Adams Miller (1884–1972) in a Moisant/Bleriot monoplane 1912 Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC Collection of Library of Congress, Washington, DC LC-DIG-hec-01546 R2022.1401.006 This tweet was posted on July 15, 2022.

From a childhood tree growing up and out of a suitcase, to a row of houses and three teacups—the photographs exhibited represent the work of Notre Dame Belmont students who challenged themselves to think beyond the obvious. #studentart #NotreDameBelmont This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.

In 1974, Qantas hired the celebrated fashion designer Emilio Pucci (1914–92) to create new, high-fashion uniform designs for flight crews and ground staff. For female flight attendants, Pucci designed a floral pattern dress. #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.

Smocks and aprons are a crucial yet often overlooked part of a flight attendant’s uniform and can vary wildly in design from one airline or era to another. Browse our collection of over one hundred smocks & aprons in our online database: https://t.co/pUb01199b1 #crewlife #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.

The artwork depicts the dual experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. According to the artist, Norie Sato, “’Air Over Under’ is about perception, relativity and how our position and situations are never static.” #PublicArt #NorieSato @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.

“Air Over Under” is comprised of a grid of 120 pieces of laminated glass panels. The laminated panels are comprised of a layer of glass with hand-painted glass enamels and another layer that includes a silkscreened pixilated image in white. #PublicArt #NorieSato @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.

📸 2/2: flight attendant smock: Braniff International; 1968 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2001.016.081 a b https://t.co/LAit576DRy This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.

For Qantas’ flight service staff, Pucci designed a uniform of bright orange jackets with canary dress shirts and striped ties. Check out the detail work on the button! #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.

In 1912, at age 21, Stinson was the 4th woman in the U.S. to obtain a pilot’s certification. Called “the Flying School Girl,” she quickly became a star aerobatic performer. She was the first woman to perform an aerial loop and the first to fly U.S. airmail. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.

Its greatest archeological ruins include the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe, built entirely from stone beginning in the eleventh century. Now a World Heritage site, extensive stone structures once sheltered thousands of inhabitants. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.

Much of Zimbabwe, a landlocked country that is slightly smaller than California, is located on a plateau in southeastern Africa. The primary languages spoken by its approximately fifteen million inhabitants include English, Shona, and Ndebele. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.

Zimbabwe serves as a gateway to Victoria Falls, the world’s largest waterfall and one of the seven natural world wonders. The country’s largest wildlife sanctuary, Hwange National Park, includes one of the largest elephant populations in Africa. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.

A quick weaver’s knot joins the thread; a tail that is cut off creates a single, nearly seamless thread. Hand knotting fibers together requires the utmost care so that the fibers do not break. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

As a reminder of the eternal life of plastic in this all-cardboard short film, award-winning theater and film director Robin Frohardt (@robinfrohardt) illustrates the journey of a plastic bag from the present day to the distant future. https://t.co/S4WYdcHT6g #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/RJZA2VyZ3w This tweet was posted on July 21, 2022.

Piña may be blended with silk, abaca (closely related to banana fiber), or cotton to strengthen the fabric without sacrificing sheerness. Blending also yields a more affordable finished product. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

The thread is then wrapped back & forth between pegs on a wooden cylinder or flat board in preparation for setting up the warp on a hand loom. Warping enough filament for weaving fabric 24 to 32 inches wide may require 15 to 20 days. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

To maintain the fineness of piña fiber after it is extracted from the leaf and processed, individual three- to four-foot fibers are painstakingly knotted together by hand rather than spun on a wheel. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

Weavers use bamboo looms to weave piña fibers into cloth. A spinner winds the continuous thread onto small reels with the aid of a spinning wheel. #PineappletoPina #pinaygonewild This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

City officials signed a three-year lease for 150 acres of cattle-grazing land from Ogden Mills, and less than two months later on May 7, a 5,770-foot-long, dirt-surfaced runway was dedicated at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco. #AvGeek #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

During the mid-1920s, San Francisco leaders envisioned their city as the western terminus of a new transcontinental air mail system. In March 1927 the city negotiated with Boeing Air Transport to fly mail from Chicago to SF—provided an airfield was operational by July 1. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.

See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.