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the beautiful weeds

the beautiful weeds

So why should weeds be beautiful? Perhaps because they bring us back to earth, provide us with honest labor in ‘weeding’ and trimming, and when they are properly tended enable us to enjoy the magnificently beautiful, or delicious; depending on the other plants one has planted in the garden.

 

Silk Ikats from central Asia

Silk Ikats from central Asia

The variance of tone in a dyed portion of yarn can be a beautiful thing in itself, but when interwoven and treated in various ways it can be transformed into a piece of visual poetry.