#rebeccaburgess

[gnomemadecc]

Excited to learn more about the clothes we wear, how it impacts our world and how we can do better.

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Excerpt from interview with Rebecca Burgess, founder of the Fibershed Project, which began in 2010 when Burgess pledged to live for one year in clothes made from fibers sourced within 150 miles of her front door in northern California. > Mae Colburn, “Interview with Rebecca Burgess about her Vision for a Thriving Local Textile Economy.” Fashion Projects, November 19, 2011.

> Rebecca Burgess in her indigo field wearing a hand-knit piece designed by Heidi Iverson. 

"These little realities about living and working with plants and animals – it creates a difference in your body. I know this because I observed the changes in myself. You really learn how to work. It’s like systems theory; you can get a system to start producing good results if you get the pendulum swinging in the right direction. My body is different now; I’m sunburnt most of the time (even though I wear a lot of sunblock), but I’m strong, and I can endure long hours, and I have a much greater sense of confidence in what I can do physically because I see the product of my labor.

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I’m lifting. I’m carrying. I’m dragging. I’m walking around. I’m bending up and down. All of that is a form of self-expression because you’re making all these small decisions for yourself. You’re applying your own ideas and concepts second-to-second. It sounds like mundane stuff, but oddly enough for the modern person, this is new terrain – at least for me – to have a total flow out on a land base, being out on 45 acres of organic farm, working.”

[ogaard-textilework]

Thrilled to present this very special body of work by Ido Yoshimoto this month! Astral Planes is a series born out of a collaboration between woodworker Yoshimoto and ØGAARD's own Tessa Watson. Yoshimoto creates his pieces out of wood dyed in the indigo vat by Watson. This indigo vat is the same vat from The Possible, using the indigo grown by Rebecca Burgess in Northern California.

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rebeccaburgess replied to your photo: “It’s only Natural”

man I just love every illustration you make! Your work is just perfect to me!!

AH couldnt answer this from work but - Thankyouuu, your comics are so cute and fun and I wish I was half as productive as you o-o