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Text by Joseph M. Schuster
Kate Anderson began knotting to give herself something to do on sleepless
nights. “I used to be a painter and would work until two in the morning. But I’d
get so tired that my colors turned muddy when I tried to mix them.” Then she
took a class in knotting and discovered a medium she could enjoy any time of the
day or night. “You work with colors the way you do as a painter, only you use
threads. The tactile quality of the material reminds me of the viscosity of oil
paint. It’s just luscious to touch.”
Kate has paid homage to the work of Roy Lichtenstein, (a) several times. “He
appropriated low art—comics—and, in the process, created high art.”
A teapot can take three months to finish. Kate begins each project by
sketching thumbnails to ensure her proportions match the original work she plans
to “quote.” Once she creates her palette from her collection of 30 different
colored threads, she keeps careful notes about each piece in a spiral
notebook.
(b) Kate, who uses Irish Royalwood Waxed Linen thread, works curled up on a
cluttered sofa in her St. Louis home, a television tuned to a cable news channel
or old movies for company. Each cup and pot is made up of thousands of tiny
knots—“I spend at least 400 hours on the knotting alone.”
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