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Annie Simcoe is a mixed media fiber artist. She creates "quilted collages" by layering her own hand

04/29/2026

Layers of sky
Laters of paper
Layers of earth
Layers of thread ….

04/28/2026

Mother’s Day is coming and wearable art is the perfect gift! Time to sew fabric is a luxury in my world. And while I have other ideas bouncing around in my head I don’t know that I will be able to explore them until winter. So for now this is it! The $hop is stocked up just in time for Mother’s day (with one more size XL coming tonight). Get ‘em while you can!!
Www.abphart.etsy.com

04/26/2026

Back at it!

04/23/2026

Grow where you are planted ❤️

04/15/2026

Save the date!! Frederick Fiber Fest April 25th!

04/07/2026

Your response to wearable art has been overwhelming! Restock coming soon!!

03/27/2026

“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few friends, books, my dogs, all things peaceful, ready for meditation and industry—if for no other reason than to escape the heart-jamming damages and discouragements of the worlds mean spirits. But, no use. Even the most solitudinous of us is communal by habit, and indeed by commitment to the bravest of our dreams, which is to make a moral world. The whirlwind of human behavior is not to be set aside.”
-Mary Oliver

03/26/2026

I have always sought solace in nature. Even as a tiny child. My mom can confirm. These days I have the privilege of caring for a network of trails that wind through a forest rich with ancient cinnamon ferns that grow to be six feet tall. They give me a profound sense of belonging to something far older and greater than humanity.

Cyanotype is a slow-reacting photographic printing process that combines ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Sensitive to a narrow band of ultraviolet light, it produces distinctive blue images. The technique was discovered in 1842 by Sir John Herschel during his experiments with light-sensitive iron compounds.

Just a year later, botanist and photographer Anna Atkins began using the cyanotype process to create photograms of dried seaweed. Her self-published book, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, is widely considered the first book illustrated with photographic images.

Among the subjects that lend themselves beautifully to cyanotype printing are ferns, one of the oldest plant groups on Earth. Fossil records trace their lineage back nearly 400 million years. One such species, the cinnamon fern—named for the cinnamon-colored fertile fronds it produces—grows in dense clumps across the swamps, bogs, and wet woodlands of North America and Asia. Mature plants can reach up to six feet tall.

Using this Victorian-era photographic method—powered by sunlight—to capture their form, and my own background in science connect me to a lineage of women scientists like Anna Atkins. And as I mentioned before, it also gives me a profound sense of belonging to something far older and greater than humanity.

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