things we spin and wear and write and read

last summer while i was teaching

at wsw

i had an incredible group of women students,

if one collected all of their 

amazing personalities, skills, words, love, and visions

one could make a universe.

recently kate got in touch

she has a show opening soon

i wish i could get there...

anyway, corresponding with kate

got me thinking

about size.

(some of her garments are room size)

and about

skills

her hands know so much,

they can make things, dancing, it would seem

all by themselves.

she has continued spinning paper, 
here marked with ink,
to make a series of these garments
which are part of her upcoming show.

~~~

meanwhile, in oxford

November, A Map
(see above, the Shop button)
made an appearance at the oxford fine press book fair.
caliban press went over.
there it is, and i was told it generated lots of interest!
can you spot the Tempest behind my new book?
the first act is printed on wake robin papers
made of day lily and abaca, 
and looks like the sea.

adirondack sutra

 already the trees are turning

announcing:

adirondack sutra

 from caliban press

 mark mcmurray's

 newest book is done

 available at priscilla juvelis books

border crossings

indigo moons

ecoprints

land & sky

i helped a little

i love this

you might, too

the starlings danced

one morning

to clelbrate

mark's edition

in the azure sky

while the crows looked on

bemused

another morning

there they were again

not so many

but enthusiastic!

color and text(ure)

these are naturally dyed kozo papers, a gift from wendy from the japanese paper place, that i have out to use, or at least to think about as i step forward into making shifu. 

it's a book, says mark. i want you to show it to my students.

i went to town today to the slu library to look at a book by mark mcmurray of caliban press and archivist at the library. this is what i went looking for:

it's called  

illustrated by tim ely.

i went to look at this book, to talk with mark a little about the papermaking class he asked me to teach to his history of artists' books class, and to go on to the farmer's market. what i found out was that tim was his binding teacher in the 80s.

synchronicity.

andrea (with lovely toenails) and marilla and their wheels, just back from two workshops, nuno felt in massachuetts, and spinning in harrisville. i'm no fan of felt, but this stuff has lovely drape and hand, and reminds me of the cloak of india's i wore.

color feasts, pale in kozo, richest in silk

and huge in sky, and i'm guessing, paint on letterpress.