What is permaculture? It's a food growing / landscaping / life style design and maintenance system based on natural principles. The word was coined by the late Bill Mollison from the term "permanent agriculture." It has been promoted and adapted around the world. You may recall me mentioning Permies.com from time to time. That's an online discussion forum about all things permaculture, including the fiber arts.
So here is the list of design parameters I want to include
- fiber content: Ideally, handspun. But I have a large collection of cotton and wool yarns, some handspun but much commercially spun. To start, I'm going to include the commercial natural fiber yarns.
- color: I already started dabbling with this last year with my nature's color palettes.
- shapes: This will probably take some defining for this project. To start, I've been collecting photographs that feature stripes or bands of color on my photography journal. How I'm going to apply them to weaving will be part of my challenge.
- patterns: Natural patterns are a key element in permaculture design. More soon.
My guiding principle is that each of these categories is taken from or inspired by nature.
Okay, so there's my introduction. As soon as I hit the "publish" button, I'm committed!
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