We are all just humans being, after all...
Please take a look at my new website to learn more about my work and find additional information on natural dyes... I am just getting it started, so it will continue to expand over time:
http://www.ecotonethreads.com/
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" The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real."
--Marge Piercy
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I fell in love with textiles a long time ago. I remember cutting slits in the sides of an old cardboard box, my rudimentary loom, and stringing them with yarn my grandmother gave me out of her knitting basket when she came to visit. My little hands wrapped the nubby string around a redwood stick and wove... over, under, over, under, knowing nothing of heddles or sheds or shuttles, happily forging their way.
Through school I sewed and altered clothing on my mom's tired old Singer, coaxing it onward when nothing in the stores or racks of thrift store finds was ever quite what I wanted it to be.
I never thought of what I was doing then as "Fine Art"... it was the work of the world--part of what I did to get by.
Having gone to art school and back, and worked fields of California food and flowers in between, the view through my eyes has changed.
When I look at the world around us, I am certain that each of us can find something truly fine. Not in the non-committal sense of the word, but in the refined sense.
Fine art. Fine lines. Fine tuned. Fine wine.
How about
Fine dirt.
Fine water.
Fine hands.
Fine timber. Fine timing. Fine people. Fine harvest.
A fine mess.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder ;)
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Define. Refine. Redefine.
What is created here is a celebration, and a continued quest for peace.
The name of my store, Ecotone Threads, takes its meaning from both the diverse, overlapping plant communities in which I live, and the colors and materials I collect from them for use in my work. I have had grand visions of filling the store with the things I create, but ultimately that requires the time and energy to photograph, describe, price, and post everything... so far, I haven't managed that much! I am trusting that with time and patience, it will continue to evolve.
Please take a look at my website to learn more about my work and find additional information on natural dyes:
http://www.ecotonethreads.com/
