I have been interviewing a few customers about the towels, napkins and table runners they purchased from me. I am curious to know how they are using them and what difference using a handwoven textile makes in their everyday lives. Here is my interview with Caryn, an elementary school teacher in Portland, Oregon. I met […]
Living with less
Last November my friends Amy Halko, Holly Jordan and I held a Clay Wood Cloth event at MIX Garden in Healdsburg, CA. We donated a percentage of our sales to the Healdsburg Educational Foundation. The money was earmarked for the Construction and Sustainability Academy (CASA) at Healdsburg High School. This past May we attended the […]
What do you mean when you call something “beautiful”?
One of my high school English teachers instructed us not to use the adjectives “nice” and “interesting.” According to my teacher, to describe someone as nice didn’t tell you anything about that person. To say a book is interesting is too vague. As I write about beauty in the everyday, I worry that I overuse […]
Beauty: the perfect medicine
I’ve been settling into my new more permanent home and running move-related errands: opening bank accounts, registering my car, finding a vet, getting a landline and more. Normally I would balance these exhausting and often frustrating tasks with the calming rhythms of weaving. With my looms still in California, I find myself sitting at my […]
Where is beauty when it hurts?
My friend Helena asked me what a world without beauty would look like. At first words like gray and bland came to mind. Then I realized that I can’t imagine it because I believe the desire to create is so strong that someone, maybe lots of someones, will find a way to bring beauty into […]
