morgan class: north country shifu

it was GREAT!!!!!
everything about my class was great, the venue, the weather, but:
THE STUDENTS
this is chris and the paper hat that came home with me!
she really isn't blurry, but she works very fast.
 lisa prepping a self-decorated sheet of lokta for spinning
 margaret and chris, lisa's hand
 jill weaving her very textured lokta
modeling a velma scarf
 i arrived early at the morgan on sunday and put on a podcast of a tim ely lecture
i like this! 
 decorated lokta for shifu making
 vannajill and her little book she made with aimee. 
jill plunked that book into the dyepot!
 margaret's weaving
 our dyestuff: onion skins
 chris's hands took to spinning and weaving like ducks to water
 so did jill's foot!!!
 i think susan is telling a story
things i learned: 
not everyone learned to make pot holders as little kids. 
women have great staying thin strategies. 
there is a collective energy about learning that the morgan fosters, 
that i will love my students. can't help it. ladies: 
i miss you already. i was honored to teach you a little bit about paper.


cleveland pics:
 !!!!!!
 a surprise angel in cleveland
jill, susan, margaret, chris, and lisa, thank YOU for all that you taught me. 
susan, tom, kevin, lauren, thank you
tom, those not very well formed sheets centered me. 
you rock more than the hall of fame.

class at the Morgan Conservatory

should you have any inkling of joining us at the morgan, 
there are links below to the morgan and to the facebook pictures, etc. 
i would love to have you join me!
cleveland, are you ready for paper spinners? 
 i'm teaching what i'm calling 
north country shifu 
at the morgan conservatory on june 25 and 26.
lokta and cotton 

a page from "changed"


North Country Shifu is an experimental workshop in which you will explore
the gentle art of cutting, spinning, and weaving and dyeing kozo. We will
experiment using drop spindles, and bobbin winders (acting as spinning
wheels) to spin cut kozo, and then weave on different simple looms. You
will experiment with a natural dyes including black walnut. The Morgan
Conservatory has been growing Kozo for the ...past five years in their
garden and you will have the chance to work with some Kozo paper that was
grown, harvested, beaten and pulled into sheets right here in Cleveland.
At the end of the workshop you will leave with a sampling of spun, woven,
and dyed kozo. This is a class for sampling, for beginners, or for more
experienced weavers come with a warped loom and weave with your spun kozo.
You can register online at



216-361-9255. You can also see the event on facebook at

if you have any questions, contact the morgan, or me.