Hannah Regier

 
 

Hannah Regier

Studio Location:: Athens, Vermont

Title of Piece: Gather and Radiate

Materials Used: Studio-grown and extracted Persicaria tinctoria; wild madder root (Gallium mollugo); four natural colors of Romeldale wool from Crooked Fence Farm, Putney, VT.

Price: NFS

Primary Techniques: Resist dyed warp; solid dyed weft; handwoven; hand twisted fringe; auxiliary fringe from the "waste" yarn from weaving process

Type of Vat: 20 gallon fermentation vat, using the spent Gallium mollugo roots from the red dye as food

Other Applications:

Artist Bio: Hannah Regier is a fiber artist whose work showcases the incredible possibilities of natural dyes and fibers. With reverence, sensitivity and curiosity to learn each living material’s language, she wishes for the spirit and stories of the land to speak through the work. Hannah grows and forages all her dye materials within a mile of her studio. Wool and alpaca fiber is sourced directly from local farms and custom spun at a New Hampshire mill. The dyeing techniques are crafted so that the fiber, dyes, and structure interact to express landscape, flow, tension and relationship. Hannah is a second generation professional craftsperson and small scale homesteader, and a multi-generation fiber worker; deeply rooted on land that has been used intensively for 250 years by people of European descent, and is the homeland of the Abenaki people.

Artist Statement about Piece: Gather and Radiate was conceived to concentrate energy from mutuality with land and community. The dye plants, indigo and wild madder, collaborate with each other in the fermentation vat. The wool was received as a gift in exchange for indigo seeds this spring. The dye pattern creates a deep blue channel up the back of the wearer, to direct earth energy up and outward. The red fringes release prayers of compassion to the universe.

The wearer might practice this meditation for courage:

Find a seat on the earth
Feel its warmth
and coolness

Breathe the earthly blue of water, leaves and sky
up through your spine

Receive strength
Gather as much as you need

When warmth has wrapped your heart,
slowly stretch your arms
out from your roots
to embrace everything

Breathe out love

Breathe in strength

Breathe out love