Mary Ann Stewart

Hi there. If we haven’t met yet, I’m Mary Ann Stewart: fiber artist, slow fashion artisan, and fiber systems advocate located in Greater Boston.

I began exploring and creating small batch, plant-based dye processes on natural fibers, including paper, in 2015.

This site first appeared when I ran for State Representative from November 2017 to September 2018. After losing that hard fought race, I took time off to rethink how I wanted to talk about the things that matter to me and decided to maintain this blog in an effort to do that.

My post topics have ranged from the arts and my civic life, family and personal history and perspectives, and state issues advocacy.

In 2020 I made the decision to launch a creative business during a global pandemic, and chose to keep this site as the blog to accompany the new website.

So, I’m a designer with a passion for textiles, stitching, and the environment, repurposing gently used things, giving them new (or longer) life, and keeping them out of landfills.

I’m on a mission to normalize garment mending and repair in order to promote a culture of regeneration, advocacy, and community around awareness and care for this planet, reuse and repair for our clothes and things, despite the current era of crass commercialism, mass-production, and throw-away culture.

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