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Welcome to Paloma Textiles, a handweaving studio and supplier of humane, earth-friendly, and fair trade yarns for knitters, weavers, and other fiber artists. I am continually searching for new products that fit the site's mission, and I welcome suggestions from anyone with ideas about what merchandise they would like to see here.
Latest Blog: Ruth Marshall, Textile Artist
I'm happy to feature Ruth Marshall's work in our new Gallery. Ms. Marshall uses knitting to explore human relationships with the natural world, especially animals. Her work was recently part of “Knitted, Knotted, Netted," a fiber show at the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey. The show featured her large-scale knitted animal pelts.
The knitting of animal pelts boldly confronts the practice of taking skins from animals. It is a constructive answer to a destructive act. As any fiber worker knows, knitting a finished piece requires attention, commitment, and love, much like raising a child or growing a relationship. The viewer of these knitted pelts cannot help contrasting this careful activity with the harvesting of skins, which usually follows a violent assault. Thus the creative act makes a strong statement, quietly, about human violence against the natural world.
Please visit the Gallery to see photos of Ms. Marshall's work.
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