I am weaving a new towel design and exploring variations. In this design, vertical ivory stripes alternate with twill stripes in different pastels. After I’ve woven a couple towels, I decide I’d like to add some horizontal accent stripes. I could get up from the loom and draw some sketches to scale to decide where […]
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 […]
Cultivate home
There’s a store on the main street of Sebastopol, CA that sells great cooking and baking tools. Whenever I drive by, I think about how much I like the name of this store: Cultivate Home. Cultivate is a verb I associate with the garden – preparing the soil, planting seeds, watering and fertilizing, weeding and […]
Unweaving
I am almost finished weaving a towel when I realize something is off. I’m not where I’m supposed to be in the pattern. I take a deep breath, set down my shuttles and examine the cloth. There it is, three inches back. A mistake if you want to call it that. A lapse in concentration. […]
