Study Group Notebook
Meeting 11: Community Through Kudzu
Participants practiced harvesting and finding old growth vines along with splitting and sorting them for crafting. The birdhouses created during the event were sent off to the Museum of Infinite...
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Meeting 10: Kudzu Vine Birdhouses
We have big plans to take create pods, training the woody vines, essentially creating large living baskets to sit in made from kudzu! Often builders recommend building a birdhouse before...
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Meeting 9: Kudzu Culture Fair
We gathered on December 1 at the NC State Extension Auditorium to learn and share all things kudzu, including how to be a Horiko-San! Together we discussed the need for...
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Meeting 8: Paper Mulberry
In a closed loop system mulberry leaves can be collected for silk worms to eat. This tree can be a partner in papermaking and an ally for silk production.
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Meeting 7: Boiling Before Retting
After our second collaborative Vine to Cloth Kudzu camp we gathered and harvested kudzu from the patch across the street form our meeting site at Local Cloth.
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Meeting 6 : Kudzu Vine to Cloth Camp
A group of us fiber folks gathered over August 5-8th at LB’s farmhouse in Marshall, NC for our second collaborative kudzu vine camp.
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