from a beautiful book i have: A Book About Grass Its Beauty and Uses
Snow Coat, Akakura, Tokamachi. A local sedge plant with a slick and waterproof outer skin provides the material for this coat. The wearer appears almost like part of the forest as he moves through the trees.
oh..this is more story than a wondertale
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isn’t it the most amazing thing??!!! i have treasured it.
…having to make up my own story, it is only one of many
photographs, the words i included are the only ones about it. the whole book is amazing…and i love native grasses. Why, i wonder, haven’t i tried to weave them???
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spin them into twine… kaite did that.. this is beautiful.. i love what japan does with fiber.
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yes…i thought of that when i was reading her post on that…
and yes, japan and fiber…the forms are exquisite, so plain, yet
well, exquisite. i am going to begin looking for very long thin
bamboo poles for the flags. that kind of bamboo doesn’t grow here.
needs to be very very flexible. keep your eye open for me, ok?
love
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Beautiful.
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oh, this is unbelievable.
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was, making her way, made me think to find it and put it here.
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Oh, so lovely.
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hi Heather, yes. isn’t it? and there is such a feeling of
purposefullness to it all. that the season of Winter has its
reason/necessity and everything is in harmony with that understanding…
or something,
where i am now rarely has snow but i come from a Snow place. this
image is something i would have understood and related to completely as a child.
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Grace, what a wonderful picture. I love some of the fabrics that are woven with grasses at SRI. Stephen always has such great descriptions of them. I don’t get a lot of snow here in the PNW but I do love to see it. Love thinking of the story of that woman..
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Wow, a tree person walking though the forest – is that what I see? Its looks like Jude’s tiniest tree on the cloth. Pretty neat. Thanks.
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linda…the story, yes such depth to this black/white
photograph…i’ve not seen grass woven at SRI. need to
go there more often…thanks for giving me that thought.
have you decided which blog you like best? let me know
and that’s where i’ll go……xoxo
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Hi Janet!…i think that would be what the best choice
would be…just become a tree…yes…
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grace..i am using the typepad blog for now. will use it through the class then decide. i am having such a hard time with the pictures. i don’t like how you put them in and then can’t type around them. still learning..
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how long do you want them? the size of the mailing tube? we have what you need growing in the back yard…
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A long, long time ago, I read that kudzu was used in Japan as a fiber for mats. Well, as most people know, kudzu is a pesty plant that is swallowing the South. So I put a batch in a covered bucket to ret it. After some weeks I finally got to the fibrous part of the plant, and the smell was making me puke my guts up. I then wove this into placemats. I decided it was too labor intensive and smelly to be done again.
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Imagine how good that coat would smell too. Some nice green smell in a cold white world. Walking tree, Janet, perfect.
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You know: it looks like one of the “hugging trees” of Jude’s holiday cloth has gone of wandering into the real forest !!!
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nicely done Grace. i can imagine Jude walking trough a snowy forest.
XXXm
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Superb Grace! Gilly
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Oh how lovely this is.
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Oh Grace, that is just beautiful, a photo that stories could be woven from…. I have some thin bamboo too but it gets very stiff as it dries.
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harmony –yes–
& also an beautiful eeriness –mystery –that gives me goosebumps–
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if i were there i think i would be afraid —but compelled— to follow that figure —to go deeper into that foreign landscape—
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I knew this looked soooo familiar, it reminds me of the first days when we moved to this farm and went walking thru all our forests. I also love Els comment,I agree, did think of those holiday trees. Ha!
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dear grace, I wondered why you weren’t posting and now I have caught up with you again. Lovely!
I am putting up something that you may like now – I am so pleased to see your work and read your words again.
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i think you CAN type around them….if you use the
COMPOSE box way over at the topish left??? lets you
size them and then shows different placement possibilities.
ok…just wanted to know where to look if i needed to
check on you Fast!
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HI juliann…i wonder if there would be something to add
to the ferment bucket…like vinegar or something that
would neutralize the smell??? since there so much of it,
seems like it would be worth figuring out how to use it???
how did the placemats come out???
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Gilli…yes. everything would smell of that singular
moment…
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Els..it’s funny. until you said that, i didn’t click on
that. i have looked at this photograph so many times
over so many years, it just is…this stop frame/still shot
of that moment in the mountains of Japan…
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Martine…she would, her cat just ahead, scouting the way
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funny how things from long ago suddenly are threaded so
firmly to the present
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yes. and mysterious
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i’ll find a source.
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one thing i am gratefull for is that i am seemingly not
ever afraid in the forest/desert/landscape. has always
seemed to be the safest place to be
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am familiar with Michigan forests…yes…
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Elizabeth…oh, sorry! i will have to go over there and
make it more clear again. still, a part of me doesn’t
want to leave blogspot….am not sure why. and GREAT!
am coming over to Southerly Posts right now! could it
possibly be a BREAD recipe???????!!!!!
xo
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i think i have figured it out now. thanks for the help. I guess we are learning slowly but surely.
who would have thought i would even be blogging?
waiting for the class to begin.
I am not giving up my other blog.. i may go back to it after class is over. I dont like how you post to the class and it doesnt show up on the blog. Do you get that one?
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Oh how beautiful, when we blend with nature.
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isn’t it amazing, Cheryl?….i have loved this photograph so
much for so long.
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