Biography Mary's love affair with textiles began as a child making doll clothes out of scraps of fabric left over from her mother's sewing projects. The vibrant sunsets and sunrises of Southern Idaho, where she grew up, provide inspiration for her color pallet. Fabric stimulates almost all of her senses, but especially her visual and tactile ones. She began weaving fabric in the early 1970's and later, while living in Saudi Arabia, she learned to Batik. Upon returning to the US she ended up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and in September of 1986 attended a workshop to learn silk painting. The sensuous iridescence of the silk and the way it took the dyes had her hooked! She began making and marketing silk scarves and clothing, selling them at fine craft shows and one-of-a-kind boutiques throughout the US. She eventually began making interior pieces such as wall hangings, screen, banners and kites and recently installed two large box kites at the Albert Eye Research Center at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. She has taken classes and workshops at many premier craft schools such as Penland School for Crafts in North Carolina, Arrowmont in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Haystack Mtn. School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine and the Design School at NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.   Gallery  |   About Mary  |   Workshops  |   Contact  |   Schedule  |   Links  |   Home