Ecodyed Bundle Books
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- The first video in the series the Forager's Journal, introducing my ecodyed bundle books which spent six months hidden in my woodland. The series of videos making the journal will begin on Friday 29 March and continue for five weeks.
The finished journal will be exhibited with CQWest's Unfolding Stories 6 exhibition at the Three Storeys Gallery in Nailsworth Gloucestershire England from 30 April to 12 May 2024. Please follow the link to the CQWest website for full details
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Here is a link to the Instagram account where I document the process
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Here is a link to the Mother Tree project by Suzanne Simard
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I'm in awe of your creativity and your knowledge and your respect for nature. Each one of your videos is a revelation! Thank you!
Cloth tales for real, tales of the woods and the seasons and of your creativity in that cloth. I love listening to you explain whatever you happen to be filming, and I especially enjoy your "wittering" about respect and reverence for our natural world.
Thank you so much! 😊
Wow! What a beautiful and inspirational video. I love trees and will hug them from time to time. I watched a film on fungi and trees. In the film they talked about the trees being related and if there is a drought the mother tree will share water with her offspring. There is so much I don't know about nature. You have a wealth of knowledge and I thank you so much for taking the time to show your books and explain each one ❤❤
@@mariemiddleton467 Yes that sounds like Suzanne Simard 's work. There is also an English author called Merlin Sheldrake who has a fabulous book about fungi and the mycorrhizal network. ♥️
I’m a fiber artist and writer. There’s this feeling I get when I read the work of some of the literary masters: a mixture of awe and terrible jealousy. I feel that when I view your work and hear about your process. You are a true master, Kathryn.
Oh my, I feel that often myself about others' work, I am overwhelmed that you should say that about mine. Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️
This is so inspiring Kathryn I am learning so much from you and I love your work
This is sheer magic. What a joy. Thank-you so much for sharing this superb project.
Thank you Jill 😊
What would we now do without your wonderful videos, I am in awe of your knowledge and skills, I am now trying things I would never have dreamt about before discovering your channel. Thank you for sharing everything you do
My pleasure Jean, thank you for being here ♥️
Thank you so much for sharing, beautiful and inspiring
Thank you so much for showing us. Its a beautiful collection of stories mixed with knowlege, skill and a love for nature. Im inspired!
Kathryn, this was just wonderful. I am really loving the stories you weave as you weave your cloth tales. Thank you very much for such beautiful and inspiring work. I’m back into EPP and slow stitching as I listen to your stories. It feels very Beatrix Potterish to me. I can almost feel the creatures and trees in your forest storytelling with you.
Tracy that was so lovely expressed. I feel the same way.
Thank you so much 😊
Everything you show is SO amazing!I don’t know what I like more- your stitching or your tales!Thank you for everything very, very much!
My pleasure and thank you 😊
Thank you for showing us and telling the story of each book. Love them all. 🤎🤎🤎
Love the green tablecloth so much nicer to look at than the cutting mat (quieter as well) a a fitting background to the trees you are honouring with your exciting journals thank you again and again 🥰
Thank you Susan, I am very happy with the green cloth and glad you like it too ♥️
These items are absolutely beautiful Kathryn. The process is fascinating. If only I had a wood and a stream. The scroll is amazing. ❤
Thank you Anne 😊
Well just wow. You are such an inspiration. I love the idea of you collaborating with nature on this project. Thank you so much for sharing your work. I have learned so much from you!
My pleasure Michelle, I have plans for a project for everyone in the weekly Slowstitch, coming soon ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales I am looking forward to it as I am one of those living in an apartment with almost no balcony!
This is one of the most creative ideas I’ve ever heard of. It is just beautiful and I appreciate what you accomplished by doing it. Thank you Katherine🥰
You are so welcome! 🤗
Good on you for leaving the brambles to do their work. When my husband and I bought our land 30+ years ago, @15 acres had been cleared for farming then abandoned for some time. Local farmers were horrified to see it growing up in brambles, poison ivy (another protector of disturbed ground), and "trash" cedar trees. We cleared a few small paths to access our creek and quietly let it be. Decades on, it's a beautiful young woodland thriving with native understory species. You hardly ever see a forested valley in our region because that's the most valuable agricultural acreage. The migratory songbirds are just arriving now to enjoy the habitat...
Wonderful to hear. Nature certainly knows best. 😊
So thrilling, this video. It should be a BBC and beyond documentary. I have never seen anything as creatively, ecologically artistic as this. My neighbour makes gorgeous pottery vessels, using all natural materials and wood/ash firing which are first cousins of this body of work. FYI she receives astonishing results from autumn rhubarb leaves. Looking forward to seeing more of the final book. Thank you for this, K3N.
Thank you so much Ann, I have a friend who is a potter and always wanted to do a collaborative project with her because as you say, there are strong links in the processes. Rhubarb is full of oxalic acid (which is what makes the leaves toxic) and great for use in natural dyeing. But of course, we can eat the stems. 😁❤️
What a wonderful tour of your 13 acre woodland. This collection is so intriguing and as a Herbalist I loved the incorporation of the texts. Totally in Awe!
Thank you Sharon, my thesis for the garden design course I mentioned was on the history of herbalism ❤️
You gave the trees and nature a voice, what pretty songs they did sing. ❤
Oh thank you that's a lovely thing to say ❤️
Wow … the scroll. Just HAD to stop the video to say that right now ❤ You are amazingly inspirational.
Thank you ❤️
Wow!! What an amazing project!!! I will look forward to watching the upcoming videos about the journal.
Thank you 😊
Thank you so much for this video. Your work is truly amazing and so inspiring. It is lovely to actually learn about nature while enjoying the beauty of your needlework at the same time.
Thank you so pleased you enjoyed it 😊
your books are simply gorgeous. i wish i could be at your exhibition and see and feel each one in person. these books are so inspiring.i love all of your stitching in them. thank you for sharing them with us! linda from california
How inspiring! I love your beautiful thread printed letters. So neat and easy to read. That was awesome 💕
Thank you so happy you liked it ☺️
This is great. 😊
I found today’s video absolutely fascinating! I appreciate all the little booklet styles and how they’ve ended up. 💖
I look forward to the thirteen acre wood journal series. 💖💖💖
Thank you Deb 😊
I loved watching and learning all that you shared. Absolutely Loved the time you took to make and teach us. Thank you.... and many blessings...❤
My pleasure thank you for being here ♥️
Your videos are so relaxing, inspirational and inspiring
Amazing!! Your most certainly are an artist! So inspirering! Love, love, love the connection to nature. Loved you telling about the threes.
Thank you so much! ♥️
This was so interesting and intriguing, Kathryn! I enjoyed how some of your life experiences and perspectives are woven together in your process. Those who attend the exhibition would so benefit from this video, as have we who can't attend. Lovely process, lovely results. Thank you.
Thank you Kate, I will try to find a way to give a link to the video at the exhibition. That is a good idea ❤️
Absolutely delightful
Amazing work. I love the birches done in blanket stitch! A work of art!
Thank you ❤️
So many creative people seem to have great magical imaginations. My poor baby doll, who is now sixty years old, has never had a name. You name your forest areas and others name their creative equipment or flowers and so on. I wounder if it was the upbringing. Mine was strict, scary, abusive and we never stayed in one place for more than five years. No time to make friends with a tree who you will leave in a year or so. I love your love of nature. Wonderful booklets. Thank you
I am so sorry you had that experience ❤️❤️❤️
K@@k3n.clothtales I was just kind of thinking out loud. I made it through that life. I am working on my imagination. Thank you for responding💜
These make me happy.
Completely wonderful
Kathryn, they are so utterly beautiful. Your books are alive and each one has its' own personality. The eco prints remind me of the Shroud of Turin - touched briefly by a miracle. Nothing shouts...they're all in harmony. Your sensitivity and artistry honour the beauty, balance and ancient wisdom of your lovely woods. I'm in awe.
Mary x
Thank you Mary 'touched briefly by a miracle ' is a beautiful, evocative expression ❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 💟💟💟
Simply amazing
Lovely journal and little stories.
Absolutely marvellous! Love your little books, thank you for sharing! What a wonderful, inspiring project...
Thank you 😊
I will watch this again and again. The work is so beautiful and I am gripped with an overwhelming desire to make "that". I have been eco-printing and dying for years but this slow process fascinates me. The challenge is that I live in South Carolina in a sub-tropical zone. In this heat and humidity everything rots quickly. But I think I could weather/bury things from November to March. I am also in love with botanical names. I don't have 13 acres, only 1/3 acre, but I am ready to start planning. Thank you for sharing.
I live in an apartment and thus have 0 acres. I'm toying with climbing trees in my local park to do some slow eco-printing. I'd have to get them high up enough that no one would notice it being there.
Do you live in a city? Do you have friends or family who have a home and a bit of land? Where I live we have a rehabilitated railway that is now a park. I am thinking of asking them if I could hide bundles there. Making these bundles could actually become a school project or a community project.@@FunkyLittlePoptart
That is a wonderful idea. ❤️ There is a thing called Geo cache where people hide things and leave messages for other people to find, my daughter heard about it at school about 12 years ago and that's what gave me the idea to do this. I used to call it 'clothcache', I think there's a hashtag on Instagram with some of what I used to do. In England I only had a small garden and hid my bundles successfully in public places, the park, fields beside public paths, even behind statues in town. Because I only ever use biodegradable materials, I think it's fine. The worst that can happen is someone takes it but that's part of the process for me. My cloth cache included a wooden lolly stick with my Instagram account and a message saying if found please take it and let me know. This happened twice and the people got in touch with me, it was lovely. Sorry to witter on! It will be interesting to experiment in your own climate to see what changes in the cloth, and play with the length of time. You can always check every so often and retrieve when you are happy. ❤️
Hello Sarah, I used to only have a small garden and I regularly left bundles in public places, please see my reply to Victoria. Even without climbing trees, you can tuck things out of sight. If you wrap them with natural twine they will be camouflaged in nature. Most people walk around without looking anyway 😂 I never lost one unless I intended it to be taken. ❤️
How about if I admit I'm just looking for an excuse to climb a tree and we leave it at that? :)@@k3n.clothtales
Thank you so much for sharing your eco-books. The care and meaning you tucked into each one is incredible. I was very charmed by your description of the hornbeam seat. I am very lucky to live at the edge of a woods and ravine, and I have a resting place in my woods under a very old maple (Acer saccharum) I named Treebeard. He became hollow inside and his top blew out years ago giving him a craggy but friendly visage with two arm branches below! A large curved piece of the top remains on the woodland floor beneath making a perfect smooth arch to sit upon. I visit Treebeard often, the ground beneath him is very calming. The woodpeckers have been very active this winter and this might be the year his arms don’t leaf out, but he is welcome to stay until he is ready to lie down. You’ve inspired me to create a journal with him.
Love the sound of your Treebeard. Even hollow trees can live for a long time. There's an oak in Savernake Forest in England called the Big Belly Oak that is over a thousand years old and completely hollow, you can walk inside it's trunk, more than 10 metres across. It's still alive. 😁♥️
Absolutely fascinating!
Brava! I can't really put into words how much I love this project you've put together. It speaks to something very deep inside me. I so wish that I lived somewhere near so that I could see it up close...and yes, touch it too!
By the way, your hands are the hands of a woodland artist. They are lovely.
Thank you so much, and for appreciating my hands 🙏♥️
That was wonderful!
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this Katherine. It’s wonderful.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
These are so unique and fascinating! Your creativity and talent is seriously outstanding.
Thank you so much 😊
Yes you are definitely a poet k3n! "Art éphémère" as we say in Frogland!
Thank you so much for sharing as most of us can't attend the exhibition. This video was so pleasing to my eyes and heart ! I can only wish you will have one in France sometime in the future 🙌... 🤎🙏🏽
Merci, on ne sait jamais 😉♥️
That's brilliant, Kathryn. I hope your exhibition goes well. 😊
Thank you! 😊
Hello from Beautiful British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦
Love trees and forest..in 1959 family trip to visit my fathers siblings. My uncle lived on a corner near where i am there are some really large firs.
I asked
My brother, who worked falling trees under the powerlines
He said they would have bee there when we visited. (He doesn't remember as he was 9 months old..
I had my first elevator ride in "The Sun building " the sun newspaper was housed there. Still standing has a copper roof marvelous green colour 👌
Hello Marguerite, I think Dr Simard, whose Mother Tree project I mentioned, worked in British Columbia and taught at the university there. ❤️
Beautiful pieces. Thank you : )
Thank you, that was absolutely wonderful. I was totally absorbed throughout- you really are an amazing lady. Hopefully will get to see the exhibition as I’m often in the area visiting family ♥️
Oh that would be wonderful Linda, I will be in the gallery on the 10th and 12th of May 😁❤️
I love the rusty, rusty fabric! I made some iron water last year and rusted some fabric with bits i’ve picked on the road and the water. Such fun! I think i’ll try your fun and bury something in the garden. We still have leaves that need to be raked so kind of the perfect time. Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure, have fun 😊
What a brilliant project. I enjoyed the video so much. I love the idea of collaborating with nature to make art. I’m hoping I’ll be able to visit the exhibition and see everything close up. Thank you for sharing your work.
Oh I hope so too, it would be lovely to see you. I will announce here and on my social media the days I will be there myself. ♥️
Your knowledge is fascinating.
Wonderful
Thank You for sharing ❤ I’ve no words in English what I just felt watching Your video. In Finland we have a deep relation to the woods. In Your video there was something about it. Just love Your story ❤
Thank you so much, I'm so pleased you liked it ❤️
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I’m inspired to try something similar in my garden 😊
Dearest K3n😊,what marvels you've created,and thankyou so much for sharing the history you've created.l do hope that you'll make time to journal all of it for those of the future who'll need both its history and the mystique that it contains.Please, try,as it does matter,believe me. I am still preserving a book from my grandmere,of her watercolours and drawings( some are almost botanical quality. )she'd put seeds with them which lve grown and preserved to go in my "updated" version,for my grandees, ( only had one failure but am leaving its place as the other one ld thought was a failure actually came up in the second year!)I've added her recipes for Bramble jelly( made with honey),& Elderberry wine& dandelion cordial! Along with her sayings etc.Wish that there more people of your mindset that l could "winter on"with! Anyhow ❤😊to you,yours,& all here!Julia, Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺 ♥ 😀
Thank you Julia, I have made a large journal which holds these books and documents their creation. There will be a series of videos coming in a few weeks. ❤️
So interesting
After I had seen Emma Freemans Buried Meditations books, I set about making my own. After seeing your project I will give them names and as I only have a small garden they will have names like, "Under The Camelia Hedge", :By The Flannel Plant" and "In The Potted Parsley"
So enjoyed enjoyed your "Thirteen Acre Wood" project. That Wolfs Head stump is wonderful. Thanks Kathryn.
It's lovely to name things, however small. I think it deepens our relationship to them. ♥️
Oh my I just love this whole project so very much. And it's so inspiring You've got my mental wheels turning on my own ongoinh projects that are collaborations with the land around me.
Hi Michelle, so happy you liked it 😊
Your work is astounding and I looked up Suzanne linking her book to my Facebook book club. Thanks.
Thank you 😊
Kathryn that was truly amazing from seeing your booklets just being collect to what they are now is stunning. I am so excited to try this with my grandson when he is over from France in the summer, he will love it. Your story about the brambles is just fascinating, we have a number of bramble runners that come from the field behind and I have always pulled or cut them back, won’t be now lol.
This is a lovely thing to share with children. Yes bramble has it's place but I do pull it out in the garden. 😁❤️
I have loved being witness to the provenance of cloth and artistic process in your video here k3n . I have been in rapt, close attention hearing and seeing this cloth tale. Thank you x
My pleasure Lesley so pleased you enjoyed it 😊
These are so beautiful! And I enjoyed your description of your trees and plants. It reminded me of Aspen trees. Perhaps you have heard that an individual tree cannot grow. Rather the group of aspen trees are interdependent in the most important life sustaining ways. They look a bit like your birches though, of course, they are very different. Do your birches talk? Aspens have gorgeous voices. I hope you'll post a picture of your pieces in situ so those of us too far to see it can appreciate how they are displayed and enjoyed by gallery visitors. Thanks for all of your posts.
Hello yes I had read that about aspens, I think in Dr Simard's book. The birches here sing AND dance 😁 I am hoping to make a video of the exhibition to share here, if my colleagues agree, otherwise I will certainly show my own work. ♥️
Magical and pure joy k3n!
What a privilege to hear such fascinating, resonating and at times laugh out loud details of your 13 acre wood series. They are all stunning and I love so much that you want them to be handled and appreciated. I also get a bit of a kick out of 'the lost book', I can't decide if it's hiding naughtily or simply not finished being burnished by your busy stream. I do believe you'll find it when it's ready.
The amount of work and research is enormous and I am so happy you get to share these special pieces with us! Wow.
From Frith at the edge of the bush in NZ ❤
Thank you Frith, I think you are right about the missing book, it just isn't ready to be found 😁❤️
This is absolutely fascinating! I had already heard of people on instagram doing this (Emma Freeman was the first one), but doing the thirteen books is so poetic… I wish I could do it… I live in an apartment in the middle of the city. There’s a public park near my house with very few trees and, of course, I can’t attach anything to them… I have always wanted to live near nature, by the sea or in the woods… it was never possible… I love my little house, but I always feel something is missing…
Again, I am fascinated! I particularly loved the books in which you wrote… Such poetic art work 🌿🌲🌱🌳🍃💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Thank you Alexandra. When I lived in England with only a small garden, I used to walk on public paths through woods and fields and leave bundles tucked in here and there, well hidden. I have even left them behind statues and places like that. I always found them again, as long as materials are biodegradable, even if they are lost it doesn't matter. 😉❤️
@@k3n.clothtales Well, I must admit those are good ideas 😉♥️
What a wonderful project. I absolutely loved this episode, even more than usual. I admire your ethos and the way you honoured the plants. I did try planting a little piece of stitched calico two years ago. I was going to leave it just for just a month or two for the soil to colour it, but I have never been able to find it again. You have inspired me to have another go. Thank you for all you post.
My pleasure Sue. Yes when I first started doing this a few years ago, I did sometimes lose things, it's easy to just miss them by inches especially in the ground. Now I mark the place by poking a stick in the ground and take a photo with my phone, as well as writing the details in my notebook. ❤️
How fascinating , I did enjoy seeing these. We have the Holy thorn here which is covered in cloutie strips. Your secret valley sounds wonderful.
Thank you Kath. I didn't know people tied cloth to the Holy Thorn. I hope only biodegradable 😁❤️
I am only halfway through this video but what an amazing project! I have no woodlands but i do have a garden (a big one for average Dutch standards) that i leave as wild as possible (i admit: mostly because i don’t have green fingers) and i think i will burry some clothbooks of my own. Such a loving way to honour nature. Love the silver ladies and all of it 😀🍀💖
Thank you Machteld, I am so pleased you are inspired to try it ☺️❤️
Amazing art! You have inspired me to try this in our woods!
Thank you 😊
I just don’t know how you do it. These are so beautiful, and I loved the stories about each tree. No woodlands here, but maybe someday I’ll attempt a Texas prairie version.
A Texas prairie version sounds fabulous ❤️
Beautiful work. Reminds me of the small wood in Lincolnshire we played in as children . Sadly the last time we went back it had barbed wire and keep out signs and many of the trees had been felled.
That's so sad. 😔 There are large tracts if woodland being clearcut around here too. Apparently the timber is sold overseas, made into cheap furniture then sold back to us. 😏
I just LOVE these books! I watched from the beginning, it’s a fascinating project and one I hope to create myself. We have 4 acres on my hill, half is wooded with a little path going through it. I’m going to plan something! Thank you! Sending hugs! 🩵
I am sure you will come up with something wonderful. Totally off topic, I couldn't get to sleep last night for thinking about dos a dos books 😂❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 😂🤣 I see into your NEAR future…. a dos-a-dos! 🩵
You have the gift of foresight 😂♥️
@@k3n.clothtales I CAN'T wait!
Thank you K3n. Please teach us Birch Trees with blanket stitch in the weekly slow stitch - Lisa from Melbourne
Hello Lisa, that's a good idea, maybe a week doing stitching inspired by nature's textures, I will add it to my list ♥️
Thanks
Thank you so much for your support Lesley ❤️
So interesting , I loved watching this and learning even more about the wonders of nature. Thank you for sharing this with us. Xx
Hearing about the thoughts and processes - then seeing how both are expressed visually and in writing - is what I enjoy most about exploring videos and posts here and on instagram. What fascinates me most is how an individual's belief system directs their creative process, making each work a unique expression of what is within the person!
Absolutely and thank you ☺️
I didn't like walnuts when i was young . Now i soak them overnight the bitterness is leached out.
Thank you for the tip 😉❤️
How lovely! I so wish I could attend your exhibition and see and touch all your wonderfully imaginative work! I love the juxtaposition of the gentleness of the stitching and the power and, dare I say it, the unforgiving nature of NATURE?
Thank you yes nature can be both forgiving and unforgiving I think ♥️
Watching this has been so inspiring. My head is already full of ideas for my own ‘foragers’ journal. I live in North Devon close to the ocean, so I would like to include beach finds that I have collected over the years. I feel this could be a perfect place for some of my favourites. It has also made me think about whether you can dye with seaweeds? Have you ever tried that?
Thank you for showing your beautiful work 😊
Wonderful to do this on the beach, I have weighed down bundles under rocks below the tideline and gone back a few days later to recover then. Only biodegradable materials of course, in case they are washed out to sea.. a friend of mine a few years ago tried eco printing with seaweed but not great results. She's a very experienced and knowledgeable eco printer so I didn't try it, thinking if she can't make it work then I can't. 😉 Now I am three hours' inland so no more beach bundles for me.. 😁♥️
Thank you so much, Kathryn. Lots of inspiration for future projects. Wishing you a bountiful blackberry harvest this year.
Thank you Barbara 😁❤️
What a beautiful collection of work. I have say and watched this video without moving. It is so inspirational.😊
Thank you so much 😊
Impressive process! What patience and creativity you have, Kathryn! An immersing look of how woodland, nature (as a whole) and time affect fibers/cloth. Thank you. I imagined myself in your 13-acre wood and how beautiful & refreshing nature is. ❤
🌷tess
Thank you Tess 🙂
I think I'll do an experiment with buried stitchings too. Just because I am curious, I want to know what will happen (in different spots/circumstances). And I think it will be interesting to do some stitching afterwards, following the 'marks' that will occur.
We are going to do a project in the weekly slowstitch in a couple of weeks 😊♥️
Such Treasure! Thank you!
This project deeply appeals to me. As an artist and a pagan/witch. I am so amazed by this sacred work. It has me wondering how I can work with the beach to create art together (I live by the sea).
Hello Kimberly, yes it's a wonderful thing to do in collaboration with the sea. I have left bundles on the beach, under rocks below the tideline when I lived near the coast. ❤️
Your little books and collaboration with nature really resonated with me! We have just moved onto 21 acres which we purchased 10 years ago, half of which is natural bush (forest) and I collect leaves for my eco printing and dyeing from the saplings. I have buried cloth here but not books … I really love the way each book honours a different tree or elements of what is growing in your woodland, and would love to meet The Silver Ladies 😊
Thank you Rita, I think the Silver Ladies would like to meet you too 😉❤️
Kathryn you are amazing!!!! I slow stitched a scroll and buried it about a month ago in my daughters garden. I can't wait too see the outcome. I was inspired by Emma Freeman, she does slow stitches books as well but she buries them,. Thank you for your videos and inspiration. Kathryn your project is fascinating!!!!! Kathryn is your thread printing done by using back stitch or using one stitch?? I need do myself books too!!!
I came across Emma's work a few month's ago, it's beautiful. My text was stitched with just one stitch per line as it's quite small but back stitch would work too. ❤️
Kathryn, did you ever think of trying to magnet fish the booklet you can’t seem to find in the river? I think you mentioned it had a metal closure. Just an idea. Thank you for sharing these booklets with us, such beautiful but weathered work. The silver birch booklet is my favorite.
Thank you, I did think of it but as it's buried under rocks I don't think it would work. I will just have to be patient. Thank you so much for the thought though. ♥️
@@k3n.clothtales You won’t know whether or not it will work until you try it. Those magnet fishing magnets are very powerful. 🙂
Hello Kathryn, I have watched halfway and I will watch the rest later. I’m off to our Retreat today in Malvern Bible Collage. I shall watch the rest whilst stitching away with our lovely crafty community. This is so interesting thank you so much, I have popped onto your Instagram too. Love Bella xx
Hello Bella, hope you have a lovely time ❤️
Just found you and became a new subbie, love this!
I love anything nature and cloth themed. Your adventures look wonderful and envy you your own beautiful woodland. The Woodland a big part of my outdoor life, tramping through leaves, and gathering moss and lichen for my own adventures with my grand daughter
Welcome, lovely to have you here. I think you will like next Monday's weekly slowstitch project.. 😉♥️
Kathryn, this was such an amazing experience to watch! It was like a story book that I just couldn't put down! Wonderful work.
I have a question which I hope I didn't miss - when did you do the stitching? Before or after the pages where buried/nature treated?
Thank you so much, in these books I did all the stitching first but sometimes I will do the stitching afterwards, or even both. Depending on what they seem to require. ❤️
Fascinating Kathryn. The books are really beautiful.
I read about Emma Freeman's Buried Earth Book project when she was first posting about it. At the time I was totally intrigued by it... but thought I'd be worried about burying some of my embroidery in case it was ruined.
My thoughts have definitely changed in recent times and I feel maybe I could do this as a project myself...
Thanks for making me think about it....💐
My pleasure Marion. I came across Emma's work just a few months ago, it is beautiful. I think if you stitch a little piece especially to bury then you know that is it's destiny from the outset. I wouldn't want you to bury one of your beautiful embroidery pieces 😱😂❤️
😊 I definitely will. I've started processing some fabric in soy milk in prep for some dyeing. It's something I haven't done before... Exciting!☺️
It's a whole new rabbit hole to go down 😂❤️
Oh I forgot the ladies name who is an Australian fungi expert is Alice Pouliot. But I expect other photographers of fungi would possibly be in the same position as they lay on moist ground 😂
😂 thanks I will look her up ☺️
Beautiful and fascinating!! Can I ask how these pieces will be displayed and explained in the exhibition?
Thank you, I have made a journal for them called the Forager's Journal, there will be videos coming soon, five parts timed so that the final part goes online just before the exhibition opens. 😊❤️
Absolutely stunning! Do you do all your stitching prior to putting into the ground?
Thank you, I did in this case but sometimes I stitch afterwards as well. I have been doing things like this for years 😁❤️
Wow that certainly blew my mind second time watching it again needed to take it all In have seen this done bethore. But yours was the best . Just a wee question when doing rust tea or coffee how long can you leave it soaking for I know from your video you say two days as I did more yesterday. & thought I would leave it for maybe 8 days or more . Found some nice pieces of rust yesterday . I was getting the most strange looks yesterday. From people ha ha but you know yourself. Some people never get Art or creativity . Any ways thanks for showing great work if only the trees. Could talk . Best peter Scotland ps have two clootie wells here very old ones . And n scotland a cloot is a torn piece of cloth use for anything & most our lovely clootie dumplings
Hi Peter, yes I have got used to some strange looks and comments over the years from people who don't get it. But many people are interested if you explain, some just think you are a nutcase though. 😂 Ah yes, clootie dumplings, my Granny used to steam suet pudding in a cloth. Delicious 😋 with regards to the rust dyeing, I wouldn't leave it longer than 24 hours or so if you were planning to stitch the cloth or make it into something. Because the metal starts to adhere to the cloth, especially if it dries out, and will eat it away at the fibres apart from not being nice to handle. However, if it's for experimentation or as an art process or piece then go for it. I have a long piece hanging on the front of my house, two strips of cloth with rusty items sewn between the layers. I made it nearly ten years ago, it hung outside my home in England and now it hangs here. The cloth is tattered and worn and in places, the rust has eaten large holes in the cloth. To most people it looks like a dirty old rag, to me it's art. It took a few hours to stitch and for me, it's an exercise in letting go. I will share a picture of it when I guide a project based on this in the weekly slowstitch, probably week 12. ❤️
Hiya once again thought that would happen thanks for getting back to me I do appreciate the feed back be good what ever you get up to away back to the river to wash them out thanks Peter xx
@@petergordon4456 don't fall in 😁❤️
very nice video has they all are for those of use at can not get Gloucestershire will we be able to see it on the web? Hope so
Thank you, I will be sharing a series of videos making the journal that they will be exhibited in. I also hope to share a video here of the whole exhibition in May..♥️
@@k3n.clothtales thank you look forward to seeing it