dyeing to get ready

i've been dyeing and making books and

making numerous trips to the post office

and being a helper

to my sister

her shoulder is healing nicely.

.

some of my three layer silk

top piece dyed with fresh indigo last summer

and then

both dyed this week with st john's wort

and other stuff

all in paper bundles

and this bunch was ready for the next dyeing

those papers were grand.

roz shared a wonderful

interview with squeak carnwath

and she has this to say:

Artists are—I think of us as radio receivers. Our job is to be available, to accept information and to make it visible. And it works best when the information that we accept is the information we recognize as a part of our deeper self. We’re all individuals, but we’re also kind of the same. And it’s personal, but it can’t just be that. It can’t just be what I had for breakfast or what color hair I have. I think it has to be so that someone else can say, "That’s mine." The viewer has to be able to claim ownership.

making the edition

hortus siccus

board books, edition of 10
two spoken for

the boards were sanded 

by my students as service learning.
there is the occasional foldout or gatefold, depending.

 boards are poplar
or popple as they say  around here.

~~~

and lastly, 

there are a bunch of us who joined in

this book includes 

many, me, too. india

www.indiaflint.com provided a platform

for her students

to share what they do.

to honor them.

but perhaps she didn't realize this

was also a way to honor her right back.

then, another little blurb book:

and she's written a new one

it's one of my very favorites

it seems so bright and well developed and clear

and very very rich

more 
words of deeper knowing and dyeing, 

and some even about paper, yay!

this book is really wonderful.

this coming week i prep for two classes at the 

MORGAN CONSERVATORY

which will be fun!

mouse activity is more vigorous this summer
than ever, ever before. 
and then there's chipmunk relocation.
but i persevere!

green

 in response to india's response

and after a wee conversation

via the ethers

 i put together a bundle

of leaves from an as yet unidentified shrub

and found some green and bluish green

and gold

on arches velin

in actual color

(for my camera sometimes reads colors wrong)

the greens are very green

(those floorboards are more pumpkin, for example)

i think we sagittarians

like pointing out untruths!

these leaves, 

started out red.

(yes, there is copper in the dyepot)

north country shifu

shifu page from an artists' book

 shifu, north country style

has been a passion, 

a focus 

for me the last few years

shifu and slippery elm and indigo cover

weaving simply

sometimes including bark and sometimes indigo

 and making shifu into covers or

as in the first photo

the pages itself

well, it's an amazingly versatile

way to make 

a book, a cloth, a coat, a story

india has posted 

a little piece on my trip to australia.

come along over to see

nature's colours in the city

and we'll do it. shifu.

in the ecotone.

stitching

 beverly gordon: textiles: the whole story

this book is stretching my thinking from the prosiac everyday 

to really seeing where this textile thing

where it comes from for me.

(my mother's birth name was weaver)

 and then i noticed a little thing

 stitches on the cover

 india flint: second skin

and this lovely book

yep also stitches on the cover

which sent me to my sketchbook

so i could play with threads

and then i noticed my shirt

waffle weave linen

flax shirt, beginning to go

but next it becomes paper

 i'm the second owner

and then i got back to thinking about books

those stitches WERE on books

me: spring walk

where a book may go

following the stitch

~~~

hellos going out to all the saggitarians 

like me, celebrating their births

thanks, jean

(even though i can't get it turned round right)

there and back again

 final morning bundles

 a treat

we were wearing our colors 

 magic

 more magic 

 an installation in a sheep meadow 

 tanya's amazing bag

a linda detail 

julie and the reds 

after five days

we are beginning to find our way

through the web of land skins

 a bridge message

 a little miracle from my spooky basement

my favorite surprise from the cauldron

 the drive home 

i decided to take the ferry

to cross champ's puddle

 yep, the mountain welcome

 cormorants for twitch

gull for me

  adirondacks in the dusk

they're home

(almost)

yesterday and today

 goldenrod harvested sustainably

 mending while wearing

serving tea

silk threads

my bundle for today

lots of super 8 sewing wednesday night

regina shares my table

we are the messy sisters

she makes felt that sings

photo of three sagittarians taken by one 

a skin sister's hands at work