ABOUT RACHEL | ARTIST & POET
Founded in 2021, The Poetry Of started as a place for exploration in creative writing, craft, and design, focused on natural dye techniques and fundamental making practices that cultivate poetic narratives into one-of-a-kind objects. Rachel’s dye & stitch work blends her interest in the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi as an aesthetic ideal and her heritage as a 4th generation American quilter. Using these two approaches to textile crafts, she finds freedom in the imperfection of the hand touched. When paired with free verse poetry, they perfectly capture hightened emotions and minute observations of the natural world.
The Poetry Of is a push against the culture of mass production and promotion of the art of slow living, extending past one arist's vision to include a community of people who value word, image and textiles.
Coming soon is a vintage poetry book shoppe, a little poetry publication, handprinted poetry chapbooks, and one day a studio space with doors wide open!
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portrait by analogous.co
OFF THE PRESS
It is a pleasure to keep this vintage press in working order. Her name is Lucy, after the beloved author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Lucy is a Kelsey Excelsior 5x8 Model U press printing poetry books and linoleum block prints.
PUBLICATION NO. 1
Words, Birds, & Flowers by Rachel Stewart
Twenty compiled poems written over 7 years selected for their similar themes of the natural world
• 23 page poetry chapbook
• 5" x 8" reycled French Paper
• 100% post consumer waste paper
• Boxcar Press printed poetry plates
• prong bound fassener
• hand printed and bound in Oregon
• published 2023
TEXTILE COLLECTIONS
A series of color and graphic explorations on textiles through a variety of techniques. The limited edition process ensures each piece
is unique, each indvidually
numbered in a collection series.
• flower bundle dye
• overdye
• cyanotype
• indigo
• block & tie resist
• paste resist
• natural dye
• iron color shift
