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Goods for sale!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Took part in a lovely trunk sale last weekend hosted by Shallow Fashion. I hadn’t seen all my things put together into a display before. I got a kick out of building a little setup to show all the different goods. It felt great to see people using and enjoying the things I’ve been making.

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Everything looks better at dusk.

Monday, April 9, 2012

And back lit! Here are another series of photos from my exercise in tent raising this weekend. I love the texture and lines that are created by the way the warp threads have grouped themselves together as I’ve worked the material over time.  

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Witches and Indigo

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Ramping up for a photo shoot of my products that I’ve been working on and selling on etsy. I wanted to create an environment that reflects the idea of what I’m working with for concept and materials. This is going to be part of one of the sets for the shoot. I’m planning a trip [...]

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New Mallet

Friday, March 23, 2012

I’ve been reading up on calendaring indigo dyed fabrics in this great book “Imprints on Cloth : 18 years of Field Research among the Miao People of Guizhou, China.” A common thread between the works of many different communities is a calendaring stage, where the fabric is pounded and smoothed with a big wooden mallet, [...]

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Orchid

Monday, December 12, 2011

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

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