15th January 2024 – (Session 14)

Caroline’s Wheel of the Year

Caroline G has brought in this diagram of the Wheel of the Year showing the seasonal celtic festivals and decides to embroider it onto a page. It feels a sif more and more groups are clebrating these festivals, particularly with dancing, be it in groups or indivdually.

I have succesfully achieved these grey and pink colours from a dye bath of rose hips using a soya milk mordant, and modified with iron wter to achieve the grey colour or wood ash lye to achieve the pink. I think the grey will make a great base page for the winter season page in our atlas. Thank you to Helen Vine for the fabric.

Natural dye from rosehips

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Published by jackiehmorris

I am a folklorist investigating our place in the world through creative and participatory practices. As an artist maker with a textile sensibility, I craft engagements, events, workshops and year long projects. I have a BA(Hons) Fine Art and MA in Contemporary Dialogues. I am currently writing up the thesis of my research investigating rural place in Herefordshire (UK) with its community through its folkloric heritage and landscapes of common land. I live in Herefordshire and study at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am Australian born to British parents and have lived in both countryside and cities of Britain. Rural conversations and fieldwork with my art collective 'Fold' supports and inspires my thinking. My art practice, Volka Arts, is named after my recent investigation into the now enclosed Volca Common Meadow, a short distance from my home. j.morris@volka-arts.org

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