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Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Jan Clatterbuck
Corn dolly fun
Janet Kerig, a fiber artist specializing in natural dyes, natural fibers and weaving techniques had a workshop recently where participants fashioned dolls from wheat. Pictured from left to right in the back row are: Amiliah Goodrich, Cyndie Goodrich, Janet Kerig, Robin Purnell, and Jane Purnell. Carolyn Beahm is in the front row. As a modern day Fiber Artist , Kerig is keeping alive the old traditions and developing new symbols and harvest figures of her own design using the natural, living, renewable, fantastically beautiful Black Bearded Wheat. Wheat weaving craft is an old as the grain itself. Using the last of the wheat harvest and hanging it in the home or barn was a way to preserve and ensure the fertility of the fields. The weaving itself was seen as a vessel in which the spirit of the harvested grain could reside until its rebirth with the spring planting. It was once believed that a spirit lived in the cornfield and died when the corn was cut. A corn dolly was plaited from the last sheaf of corn thereby providing a resting place for the corn spirit and ensuring the continuity of the harvest the following year.
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