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02/25/2026

Having fun in snow 🩷🫶⛄️❄️

06/15/2023

05/28/2021

Sea Creatures Revisited 2019. 27”x36”x 2”
Organic home grown silk, reeled raw silk from cocoons, woven on back-strap loom (jibata loom), duped shibori shaped woven, mounted on hand-made paper substrate clamp-dyed in indigo, along with woven abaca-strips.

Collection of Annabel and Gwen North.

07/30/2020

Extracting kudzu fibers from wild-harvested kudzu vines that are fermented and washed clean. This is the time to prepare and gather fibers. Hand-making papers will be winter season activity.

07/21/2020

Kudzu vines harvested, fermented (known as retting), and washed. Extracted fiber will be later ponded into fiber to make hand-made paper.

12/21/2019

09/26/2019

Kudzu fibers are further pounded into paper pulp. I like to retain some integrity of filament fiber mixed in the fine fine paper pulp, for this I add in some kozo pulp at the end.

09/26/2019

After the kudzu fibers are washed, separated from vine core, then they are cooked further in soda, bleached in sun, then ready to be hand pounded into paper pulp. Hand pounding provides choice of degrees of fiber length. I like to retain some integrity of filament state mixed in with fine fine paper pulp. For this, kozo pulp is mixed in at the end of pounding.