Gardening
Today’s passage from The Dawn of Everything covers new thinking about gardening and the gardeners of the distant past. What if we shifted the emphasis away from agriculture and domestication to, say, botany or...
foraging
Women’s association with such knowledge extends back to some of the earliest surviving depictions of the human form: the ubiquitous sculpted female figurines of the last Ice Age with their woven headgear, string skirts...
fiber and food
Textiles, basketry, network, matting and cordage were most likely always developed in parallel with the cultivation of edible plants, which also implies the development of mathematical and geometrical knowledge that is (quite literally) intertwined...
neolithic daydreams
I’ve been reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. The pages were turning quickly until I got to this part almost half way through, and then I was stopped in...
Quarryfest
One of the special attributes of this area is a quantity of granite and a history of quarrying. The landscape is dotted with ponds from old quarry operations. Some few carry on the tradition...
St. Andrews
Another jaunt to Canada with my friend Jaye. We did a little wading. A little rock sitting. Enjoyed the air, earth, water, and sunshine. Today I’m making a simple nine-patch from Deb Lacativa-dyed scraps....
Summer
Entering a different mode. I’m not making very much at all with cloth, paper, fiber. I’m just stitching once a week, on Friday afternoons. I miss all the making I was doing, but my...