Category: Wyckoff House Museum Artist Residency

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In addition to natural dyeing with flowers found on the Farm — pokeberries and echinacea (also called Rudbeckia), Tenn Apprentices learned embroidery for the first time. Here are some of their experimental stitches. Pin It

The Wyckoff House is New York’s oldest structure. Pieter Claesen, an immigrant from Norden, an area now part of Germany who founded what we think of as Wyckoff House, entered America when it was Dutch-controlled, becoming an indentured servant on a farm near Albany. When his servitude ended after 6 years, he relocated to Nieuw…

As one of the third Saturdays at Wyckoff House Museum, free, walk-in art, farming and cultural events for families, I led a weaving workshop, transforming Wyckoff furniture, including a decommissioned spinning wheel, into a makeshift loom. I taught children the “under over” pattern. Together, we wove one communal fabric. Yarns were cut by hand from…

After harvesting flax in late August, we bundled the branches, and hung them upside down to dry, catching falling seed pods in voile. Unwrapping the flax, we used our hands to pull and scrape off seeds, collecting in the bottom of the bucket. The small, brown, edible seeds are inside the round bulb or pods,…

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