Textiles and Tea was a great meeting with
who has long lived in New Mexico, and reveres the work and designs of the early people there, the Mimbres people. Though their pottery is known, no weaving remains, but she's sure they were weavers.
Her own designs echo their pottery and the petroglyphs she's studied where she lives.
Also a shepherd and natural dyer, she raises the sheep whose fleece she uses in her work, for both warp and weft, though she no longer spins it herself. She gets it machine spun for consistency.
And she's written on the natural dyes of her region.
You can see the influence of native peoples on her designs. She's worth following. And the Mimbres are worth studying.
From there downhill a bit to yesterday's library movie, another in the Katharine Hepburn celebration.
Her first movie, with Adolphe Menjou, Douglas Fairbanks and other stars of the time. Maybe it was the lighting, but they all looked very overlookable.
And after an hour of Hepburn (over)acting the gamut from A to B, to quote a critic of a live theater performance, I was nodding off and went home. She won an Academy award for this, why?
Anyway if you were thinking of checking this one out, I'd suggest, unless you're a serious student of the history of Hollywood movies, you do something more interesting instead! I'll be back next week in the hope of a better movie. though.
Happy day everyone, keep looking for a better option. There's a chance Ukraine might retrieve Crimea, let's hope.
