Welcome
Please know: this is mostly an archive of works pre-2016…. visit EartHand Gleaners Society, -the nonprofit for which I am the founding executive director- that website gets way more of […]
West Coast and East Coast Intertwined
Nettles belong across the Northern Hemisphere, and those threads, and the traditions of twisting and weaving them, connect many of our cloth stories. Flax for linen has both a simpler […]
nettles, gardens, community and cloth
It felt well past time to show a bit of love to this, my neglected website child.., as all my attention goes to either instagram or EartHand’s website. But much […]
Ancestral Roots to Present Place
My ancestral roots are tied to Scotland, Wales, Ireland and unknown parts of Germany. My ancestors were settlers to Canada – whom I now refer to as disruptors – acknowledging […]
New Skin (new garments)
Now here we are, as the darkest time of the annual earth cycle comes round, we can see a lighter time of being human ahead. We have all in our […]
Arts & Life Article…
I am feeling like a little brag is required- the Vancouver Sun article from this interview with Stuart Derdeyn a while back turned into such a lovely piece and makes […]
Seasonal Fibre Guild: marking a decade into my discovery of local
2019 marks the year I turn 50, and to acknowledge that I decided to give myself what I really want- time in EartHand’s two managed gardens with plants between my […]
CACiS 2018: Grooming the Land
A story of love, loss and creative angst. It is said, you can never go back- similar to the idea of not being able to step into the same river […]
Colour Therapy
WINTER: perversely in the winter time when it is dull, grey and dark, I find myself wearing blacks and greys- likely an urban camouflage- yet I am greedy for colour […]
walking and spinning as meditation
Last summer I began the practice of traveling with a drop spindle and fibre as my ‘travel craft”- something to keep my hands busy in those interstitial times of waiting. […]
Musings on a community based practice
At this dark time of year I’ve been sorting and purging old files; as the paper documents, computer files and photographs pass through my hands, they trigger many reflections on […]
Sharon Kallis 