Our Given Nature
The supplies have been delivered, and friends are asking to be pollinated with a vision of an animal or plant guide, a blessing, or their...
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Katherine Savage
May 224 min
Well Supplied with Generosity
Embroidery hoops and needles, organic cloth and thread, and fabric pens have been delivered and mailed. Soon the embroiderers will begin...
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Katherine Savage
May 164 min
The Jeweled Beads of Our Story
It was emotional being on the land again where my shroud began its life. I traveled down the mountain to the fiber arts studio at Warren...
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Katherine Savage
Feb 7, 20224 min
An Art as Ritual Reflection
Nancy inhabits a small minority of people I know who are brave enough to stay awake in the challenges of their lives. She contacted me...
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Katherine Savage
Jul 17, 20213 min
What Will Be...Will Be.
The weaving is complete, and tonight the shroud makes its home with me. I met Melanie earlier today to receive it from her generous...
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Katherine Savage
Feb 12, 20214 min
Solitude, Stillness & Silence
It’s challenging to weave in 30 degree temperatures, but I am doing it, calling on the homesteading ancestors of Southern Appalachia to...
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Katherine Savage
Jan 4, 20213 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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Katherine Savage
Oct 25, 20203 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...
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Katherine Savage
Jul 18, 20203 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...
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Katherine Savage
Jun 25, 20203 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...
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Katherine Savage
May 17, 20203 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...
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Katherine Savage
May 11, 20201 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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Katherine Savage
Apr 24, 20206 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...
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Katherine Savage
Apr 12, 20203 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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Katherine Savage
Feb 1, 20204 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...
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