Natural Dye Weekend.

Raw silk that I dip dyed in indigo dye made from leaves of indigo plants being grown in the garden of  Louise Wheatley. Louise worked with Olivia Fite from O'Herbals to give a natural dye class using medicinal herbs from her garden. My picture above was taken the weekend of the class that I participated in. 

Drawing Progress

 

 

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Alphabetized  list of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Saturday March 25, 1911.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/triangle/trianglevictims2.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

"...Perhaps this was her rightful fate, to be eaten alive by a fierce beast, a proper penance for her crimes. She closed her eyes and tried to still her heart. If her life was over, so be it. She would be nothing but glimmering bones scattered beneath the brambles, and the strands of her hair would be taken by sparrows to use in their nests.
     The wolf stood in a hollow, eyeing her, but she must have appeared worthless, for it shifted back into the woods." p. 33, The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman.