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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock !Ncw* Staff Writer
Kim Jacobsen wanders the woods on Aaron Mountain throughout the four seasons, picking dandelions in the spring, daisies and purple clover in summer’s heat, apples and goldenrod in Autumn and pine needles as the snow falls.
The wild plants, flowers from the garden, spices off the kitchen shelves, onions and cabbages from the icebox are tossed into a kettle and simmered to produce the natural dyes Kim uses to shade the cloth she weaves.
While the pot of color bubbles on the kitchen stove, she sends a shuttle flying across her loom to create softly sensuous linen shirts that shine like silk and woolen tapestries that reflect the colors of Rappahannock’s hillsides.
Few youngsters grow up dreaming of being a weaver and Kim was no exception. She was inclined towards the arts but just barely. “My father was an artist,” she explained. “But he wasn't at all involved in textiles—no one was in those days. It was even before macrame!”
Kim's dad was a painter and sculptor with a working studio in the basement of their New Jersey home and a downtown studio for display.
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