by kborga@gmail.com | Aug 16, 2026 | Studio Notes
It started with the stash. I wanted to weave towels as a gift, and before buying anything new, I went looking through the cotton I already had. Cones came out of cabinets and bins and eventually ended up lined across my kitchen island—naturals, creams, whites, blues,...
by kborga@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2026 | Studio Notes
There is always a point in making something new when I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. I reached that point this week with a zipper. I’ve been working on a smaller WOOLBORNE bag, and I knew almost from the beginning that I wanted it to close differently from...
by kborga@gmail.com | Aug 2, 2026 | Studio Notes
For the past several weeks, most of my work has happened upstairs in the office. I’ve been writing, building websites, organizing photographs, planning collections, learning new systems, and creating the structure around the work. All of it matters. A creative...
by kborga@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2026 | Studio Notes
One day I came home with an entire pallet of sheep fleeces. No, really. A whole pallet. When the farm called to ask if I could use some wool, I imagined a few fleeces. Instead, I found myself standing beside a mountain of wool waiting for a new home. There was a...
by kborga@gmail.com | Jul 19, 2026 | Studio Notes
The First WOOLBORNE Collection, and I am so proud of this work. It took me a year to arrive at something I’d put my name on—and along the way, plenty of people told me to just put it out there, that it was good enough. They don’t know me. I wasn’t...
by kborga@gmail.com | Jul 11, 2026 | Studio Notes
When people imagine an artist’s studio, they often picture shelves lined with paint—rows of colors waiting to become a landscape, a portrait, or an abstract work. My studio has shelves too. But instead of tubes of paint, they’re filled with fleece. Romney....
