Natalie Barney – crafts cabin

May Day flag

So much to take in — the Rootworks archive. Hundreds of photographs by Ruth Mountaingrove who created the lesbian-feminist community in southern Oregon.
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Rootworks, was established in the 1970s by Ruth and Jean Mountaingrove, when both women were in their 50s. “The philosophy was that we would live without men, separate from the patriarchal world,” Ruth told me in the late ’90s. “That is still pretty much the idea.”

“…As part of that dream, women experimented with new ways to live and work together – and with all sorts of activities and rituals, from house-building projects and collective gardening to the sacred circle.” – Linda Long
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The best part of the dream for me would be the all-purpose crafts cabin named ‘Natalie Barney’.

read more about Rootworks via Queerest Places
images via Ruth Mountaingrove papers – University of Oregon

Happy Mothers Day! Especially to my mom Bette. Here she is pregnant with me Thanksgiving 1978 in our very 70s kitchen.

Feast the eyes on this odd assortment of German household objects surrounded in shades of cornflower blue. Officially my new favorite color—if anyone is asking.

via Glasgalerie Jan Kilian

Looks like Calder lived in a French cave dwelling! Sache, France 1968.
photographs by Gjon Mili via LIFE

In Macedonia there are looms in the rooms. See the youth, the sheep, the garments, the bread making, the hanging of lanterns, the hanging of portraits. Vibrant Volce!
via UMass Amherst

Rugs. We grew up with you. via LIFE