Milkweed Threads is my simple response to a restless world that needs to slow down and let in the silence where God can be heard. I create useful and beautiful goods by hand that I hope will bring a practical beauty to your day to day routine. My inspiration comes from our Father’s creation that continually unfolds its treasures to me. St Augustine says
Thy whole creation speaks Thy praise… that so our soul rises out of its mortal weariness unto Thee, helped upwards by the things Thou hast made and passing beyond them unto Thee Who hast wonderfully made them; and there refreshment is and strength unfailing.
I can testify to the truth of these words. As I live through a weariness that life in this world brings, God daily lifts me up into His life of grace where I am refreshed. St Augustine says it here far better than I ever could.
Here I will grow my love for beauty in textile arts as I continue to apply various methods including appliqué, embroidery, traditional quilt patchwork and linocut fabric printing. I carry a steady supply of bags and other goods in Catholic themed fabrics which I take great delight in making.
I will finish with these words on beauty for your meditation from Fr John Saward which undergird in part the work of my own life:
In an age of rational illiteracy, in which deconstructed man has turned his back contemptuously on truth, the power of beauty still speaks in colours beyond words and thoughts. In an age in which love and goodness have been narcissistically inverted so that all love and goodness are about “me” and not the “other”; an age in which the self-sacrificial heart of true love has been removed and replaced by egocentric counterfeit “loves”; in such an age, beauty still pulsates with healthier passions and nobler desires.