One-of-a-Kind, Process-Patterned KnitsEvery Sky Like Snow hat is unique, created on a vintage knitting machine from carefully measured, hand-dyed skeins of yarn. The flowing spirals and expressive zig-zags are distortions of the original design, caused by varying tensions in every step of the process. This creative practice strikes a balance between controlling the materials and letting go of a specific outcome so that the yarn reveals its own story in the emergent patterns.
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Farm to Fashion | Foraged ColorAll of the hats are made from wool and alpaca sourced from local shepherds and custom-spun for Sky Like Snow in a small New England mill. The dyes are extracted from plants and fungi farmed and ethically foraged from the landscape around Sky Like Snow studio.
The regional fiber producers and processors: Crooked Fence Farm CVM Romeldale sheep Cas-cad-nac Alpaca Farm Snowshoe Farm Alpacas Sallie's Fen Alpacas and Fiber Mill |
About the ArtistSky Like Snow is the creative endeavor of Vermont artist Hannah Regier, who has made knit hats since her childhood and thinks they are the perfect union of creative canvass, cold season practicality and joyful expression. The work combines her great loves of being in the woods, gardening and making. Hannah steeps the yarn for these hats in the natural colors from/of the landscape, embodying the good nature of the forests and fields and offering warmth and well being to wearers' heads and hearts.
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About the Place
Sky Like Snow is located along the Bull Creek in Athens, Vermont. The 3/4 acre micro homestead consists of a residence in a c.1820 one-room schoolhouse a small stone studio and many plots of dyes and vegetables. Most of the foraged dyes come from within a couple miles of home base.
Press and Selected Engagements
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2017 Paradise City Arts “Get Real” blog post:
festivals.paradisecityarts.com/lets-get-real-handmade-art |
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2016 Sponsored post on Life+Style+Justice:
www.lifestylejustice.com/blog/skylikesnow |
