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.

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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.