Laura Sims (NC, d. 2014), 4-Foot Silk Wall Hanging

Indigo Stone Studio, marble dyed silk with abstract vegetal motifs, together with custom cherry bracket and maple cleat.

Bracket 34 x 3 1/2 x 3 in.; silk 8' 10" x 1 x 11 in. (full length)

Laura Sims became an exhibiting member of Piedmont Craftsmen in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2008 and was also a member of Southern Highlands Craft Guild. She worked for both the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and John C. Campbell Folk School in administrative and/or shopkeeper capacities while building her love of mountain craft and craftsmen. In the mid-80s she drove cross-country with a friend to take a weekend marbling class and found her ‘thing’. She taught marbling many times at Folk School, Penland and Arrowmont. She organized an International Marbling Conference at Arrowmont in ’02 which drew marbling artists from all over the world.

Artist biography courtesy of Piedmont Craftsmen

Some fraying to edges of silk, possibly intentional.

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