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    Deliberate Imperfection
    Katherine Savage
    • Jan 5
    • 3 min

    Deliberate Imperfection

    I created a foot of shroud cloth today, weaving for my very first time. Melanie Wilder has set the loom up on the porch at Warren Wilson ...
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    The Warp and Weft
    Katherine Savage
    • Oct 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Warp and Weft

    Yesterday we processed the remainder of the flax needed to make my shroud. The first of three panels woven by Melanie’s students at Warre...
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    Harvest Time
    Katherine Savage
    • Jul 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Harvest Time

    With a wiggle and a tug, my flax plants came out of the ground. Heavy-headed with seeds, Melanie and I gathered stalks until our hands co...
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    The Life Cycle of Justice
    Katherine Savage
    • Jun 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Life Cycle of Justice

    I had no idea, truly, that flax is so beautiful. I am standing at one end of a 33 x 3 foot row of it, and its sky blue flowers are swayin...
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    Cloth and Covid
    Katherine Savage
    • May 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Cloth and Covid

    Cloth, Melanie Wilder notes, is the first and last thing to touch our skin as we enter and leave this world. A blanket swaddles us upon a...
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    Spring Invocation
    Katherine Savage
    • May 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    Spring Invocation

    Two feet of wing feather from a turkey in molt, found me on the mountaintop I haunt. It was our first truly warm day, when layers, wool, ...
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    A Pandemic and a Funeral
    Katherine Savage
    • Apr 24, 2020
    • 6 min

    A Pandemic and a Funeral

    Inside the universal processes of creation and destruction, there is a planet with a people in much disarray. They have lost their connec...
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    In The Beginning was a Seed
    Katherine Savage
    • Apr 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    In The Beginning was a Seed

    As they flew from my hand and made contact with the air, I considered their future, which is to become my winding sheet...
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    An Ode to Jim and Michael
    Katherine Savage
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 4 min

    An Ode to Jim and Michael

    On the morning Hurricane Michael arrived in the South Toe Valley, I opened my email to find a request from a neighbor for help with the b...
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