Please stop into the gallery to see the work of designer Rosemary Boyd, of Stirling, Western Australia.  Rosemary works with a variety of fibers, both natural and synthetic, and does stunning things with both sari silk yarn and sari silk fabric.  She has a great color sense, and  is able to work with both bold, intense colors and soft naturals.  To the left is her Recycled Sari Silk Fabric and yarn mix Skinny Scarf Hand Crocheted, worked in ribbon strips of a recycled cream and gold silk sari, and a very soft nylon yarn.  She has used an open crochet pattern in the construction.

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.

To the left is a detail of Ruth Marshall's Ivy, 2006, 87 1/2" x 66."