Collection: Marcia Mahaffey

An accomplished practitioner of Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), Mahaffey says the techniques she uses to enrobe stones are adapted from those used in creating ikebana vessels. “I like looking at the shape, color and texture of the rocks and figuring out which technique to use on them. The simple one that I do is an interlocking V-knot called Kanoji-musubi; the one with a spiral is called a butterfly knot, Cho-musubi. The more complex one is a double-interlocking knot. The most difficult part of weaving on rocks is to get the canes to stay wrapped tightly.”