—WEAVING —
Prayer & Purpose
Following the tradition of my maternal grandmother, and many grandmothers over the world, the study and practice of weaving continues to bring me home.
When I weave, I often feel many grandmothers around me, and the gift of my own grandmother’s skilled hands coming through my own.
With focused purpose and prayer I weave medicine shawls, ruanas, prayer rugs, altar cloths, tea mats. Knowing the story of my materials is of utmost importance: I work with local yarn and make my own plant dyes whenever possible.
Weaving is my favorite form of time — where I fall into a timeless, quiet, mystical, mythological and sacred work, that spans generations and reaches into nearly every culture of the world.
Snake Skin
Hand-dyed Navajo Churro wool with cotton warp, hand-stitched into a ruana.
Woven Bloodlines
Deep tones of hand-dyed red cotton thread, warp and weft.
Summer Sunrise
Botanically dyed raw silk warp with cotton weft. Woven into the shimmering colors of the rising dawn.
Winter Moon
Soft Corriedale wool woven from one single black ram, who once roamed the lush lands of the Point Reyes Peninsula.
Top Left to Right: Corn Mother made of botanically dyed local wool; my tools and my grandmother’s woven rug.
Bottom Left to Right: Soft Shield made of white cotton; weaving my first rug
