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...
The Field to Shroud project was a collaboration between Katherine Savage and Warren Wilson College faculty and students to make her death shroud from flax grown in their field and processed in their fiber arts studio.
Through this project, our aim was to...
Connect cultural views of death to the natural cycles of the earth as the shroud grows from a seed
Advance earth-honoring body disposition practices that include the making and use of locally-grown shrouds
Increase awareness of how imperialistic economic paradigms resulted in earth-injurious cloth production practices in our mountain region
Support a return to our heritage of growing, processing, dyeing and milling cloth-making plants.
While the flax grew, was harvested, and made into cloth, learning circles were held to connect people to this work. The circles targeted three communities:
Local growers, to encourage them to return cloth-making plants to our fields
Death workers, to support their advocacy for and use of earth-honoring body disposition materials and practices
Fiber arts students to learn the skills of processing flax and making cloth.
If you are interested in growing this project's influence, let us know!