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TEXTILES
Medicine For Your Body and Soul
These pieces are made to be lived with.
To wrap around your shoulders when you need somewhere to soften.
To curl beneath at the end of a long day.
To pull close when your body wants comfort before you even have words for why.
Weight, softness, texture, and image come together in pieces meant to be touched,
held, slept with, carried from room to room,
and woven into the ordinary rhythms of your life.
They aren't precious objects meant to be kept at a distance.
They are living art.
This work is rooted in the art of being held.
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These works are meant to be lived with.
THE NATURE OF THIS WORK
Soul Wraptures and the other textile pieces I create emerge slowly.
Many are one of a kind or made in very limited numbers.
Some begin in conversation with the person they are being created for;
others take form in the studio and wait for the person who recognizes them as her own.
Each carries its own story, but another begins when it comes into your hands.
You bring it into your home, wrap it around your body, sleep beneath it, reach for it when you need comfort.
Over time, it gathers the imprint of your own life.
The work becomes yours through living with it.
THE ART OF BEING HELD
There are times when you ache for a place where you don’t have to carry everything for a while.
The people you love, the responsibilities that never seem to end, the worry you carry quietly, the strength it takes just to keep showing up.
You may have carried it for so long that you barely remember how it feels to set any of it down.
This work grew from knowing that need in my own body.
The need for a place where your shoulders can drop, where softness meets your skin and there is enough weight around you to lean into.
A place where you don’t have to brace yourself against the world for a while.
You can give yourself over to the warmth, the texture, the feeling of being surrounded,
and receive some of the comfort you so often give to everyone else.
But being held doesn’t have to end when you get up and move back into your day.
Some pieces are made to sleep beneath or pull close when you need somewhere to rest.
Others move with you. A wrap around your shoulders, a serape falling against your body,
something beautiful against your skin as you walk out the door.
The feeling goes with you—a private reminder beneath everything else you’re doing
that you still have somewhere to return to inside yourself.
You can carry the experience of being held with you.
WOVEN WITH INTENTION
Every piece begins long before I touch the cloth.
The images come from my paintings, each created during a particular time in my life and carrying
the spirit, guidance, and experience that moved through me as I painted.
When I begin designing a textile, I bring several of those paintings together,
layering fragments of color, image, and texture until something entirely new begins to emerge.
Each design becomes its own tapestry, carrying traces of the paintings it came from
while becoming something that has never existed before.
From there, I choose the materials for the way they feel against your skin,
the way they move and fall around your body, and the pleasure of touching and living with them every day.
I look for fabrics that invite your touch, settle easily around your body,
and feel luxurious without demanding special treatment.
Living art has to be livable.
Nothing I make begins with beauty for its own sake.
I create until the piece gives me the feeling I’m looking for—
the feeling of being wrapped, held, surrounded by the kind of embrace I needed as a child and still need now.
That's how I know when a piece is right.
From there, I can offer that experience to you. I know it in my own body first.
And as I work, I’m aware of the hands that may one day reach for this piece,
the body it may wrap around, the life it will become part of.
That intention is there from the first image I choose through every decision I make and every hour my hands spend with it.
It is part of the making.
HOW THE WORK TAKES FORM
SOUL WRAPTURES
The pieces that began it all.
There are times when what you need is somewhere to disappear for a while without actually going anywhere. To pull something beautiful around your body, feel its weight settle over you, and know that for this moment, you don’t have to carry everything you were carrying five minutes ago.
A Soul Wrapture gives you that place.
You might sleep beneath it, curl into it at the end of a difficult day, wrap it around your shoulders while you read, or reach for it simply because your body wants the feeling of being enclosed in something soft and familiar.
Over time, it becomes yours in another way. Your body knows its weight. Your hands know where to reach for it. It becomes part of the place you return to when you need to come back to yourself.
Something you can reach for when you need to be held.
BUBBE MEDICINE PILLOWS
Created to hug you back.
Sometimes you want to gather something close to your body—to tuck it beneath your arm, pull it against your chest, rest your head against it—and feel something meet you there.
That is why I created these pillows.
I wanted them to have enough softness and substance that when you draw one against you, it doesn’t simply lie there. It settles into your body. You feel its weight against you, the velvet and fabric beneath your hands, the fullness of it against your chest. There is a physical sense of being met.
Every pillow I make carries that intention. I want you to feel as though the embrace goes both ways—as though, for a little while, you aren’t the only one doing the holding.
Made to be held. Made to hug you back.
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BUBBE MEDICINE BLANKETS
The lightest touch of love.
The Bubbe Medicine Blankets are made from the same organic double cotton gauze and silk velvet as the Bubbe Pillows and carry the same medicine at their heart—the medicine of love.
But the experience is different.
These blankets are extraordinarily light, more like a whisper against your skin than something meant to cover you with warmth. The softness of the gauze and the lusciousness of the velvet settle gently over your body, giving you the sensation of being touched without weight, surrounded without being enclosed.
You might draw one over yourself when you lie down, drape it across your body while you rest, or simply let it brush against your bare skin. There is something tender in that almost weightless touch—a quiet reminder of the kind of love that asks nothing from you.
The same medicine of being held, offered with the gentlest touch.
SPIRIT MEDICINE PILLOWS
The same embrace, with a more elemental feel.
Spirit Medicine Pillows were created with the same intention as the Bubbe Pillows—to give you the experience of being hugged back. They have the same generous fullness and softness, but their character comes from a different combination of textures. Raw, frayed linen meets organic cotton gauze and touches of silk velvet, while the heavier natural linen on the back gives you something substantial to pull against your body.
There is a sensuality in the contrast—the roughness of the linen against the softness of the gauze, the unexpected lushness of velvet, the loose frayed edges brushing beneath your fingers. It invites your hands to wander over the different surfaces, but the beauty is also in the way your body experiences them—the shift from softness to texture, from something smooth and yielding to something more raw and substantial.
I love the untamed quality of these pillows. The linen edges are left raw, the threads allowed to fray and fall naturally. There is beauty in that imperfection, especially alongside the softness of the gauze and the lushness of the velvet. Nothing feels too finished or precious. The materials are allowed to be what they are.
The intention, though, is the same.
Something beautiful to pull close to your body a
nd feel the embrace come back to you.
WEARABLE SANCTUARY
Carry the feeling of being held with you.
There is something different about wrapping yourself in a piece and then walking out into the world.
The softness remains against your body as you move through your day—a private layer of comfort that belongs only to you.
I created these pieces because I wanted that feeling to travel with me.
I wanted to be able to leave the sanctuary of my chair or studio without leaving behind the experience I found there.
A serape around my shoulders, a wrap falling against my body, the familiar touch of fabric
against my skin became a way of carrying that sanctuary with me.
You may be moving through a crowded room, sitting across from someone at dinner, traveling, or simply going about an ordinary day. Beneath all of that, there is still this intimate experience between you and what you’re wearing—
the sensation of being surrounded by something created to feel good against your body.
And because each textile begins with my paintings, you’re wearing more than pattern.
You’re carrying a piece of the art itself, transformed into something that moves with you
and becomes part of the way you inhabit your own body.
The wearables take different forms.
Sanctuary doesn’t have to be a place you return to.
Sometimes it is something you carry with you.
Shadow Weaver — a serape created for the part of you that carries her magic into the world.
A SOUL WRAPTURE CREATED FOR YOU
Some pieces begin with you.
Some of my textile pieces begin with a person rather than with an idea of what I want to make.
We begin with a conversation. I want to know something of your story, what you’re drawn to, what matters to you, and what you long to feel when the finished piece is around your body.
From there, I return to my paintings and begin creating the textile itself. Images from different works may come together, overlap, and become something entirely new. I choose the fabrics for the way they feel against your skin, the way they move around your body, and what they bring to the piece as it takes form.
What I create may become a Soul Wrapture, made for wrapping yourself in at home. Or it may take a wearable form—
a Nest or Sanctuary Wrapture Wrap, a Shadow Weaver serape, or the longer ShadowFall.
I don’t begin knowing exactly what the finished piece will look like.
The conversation we’ve shared, my paintings, the materials, and my own intuitive process all become part of its making.
There is something ancient in this for me.
We have wrapped our bodies in textiles for thousands of years—
for clothing and shelter, protection and ritual, comfort and beauty. Here, that ancient language becomes deeply personal: art created for you that you don’t only look at. You touch it, wear it, wrap yourself inside it, and allow it to become part of your life.
What emerges belongs only to you.
AVAILABILITY
These works are created slowly and in small numbers.
Some pieces are available now, while others are made individually as new textiles take form.
Because each piece begins with my artwork and is created by hand, no two are exactly alike.
What is available changes as pieces are completed and find their homes.