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, 2021
- 3 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, 2021
- 4 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, 2021
- 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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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...
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Katherine Savage
- Jul 18, 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...
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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...
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Katherine Savage
- May 17, 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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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