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    Solitude, Stillness & Silence
    Katherine Savage
    • Feb 12
    • 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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    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...
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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...
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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...
    87 views0 comments
    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...
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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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