A trip to New Ravenna
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Across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, MD sits the Delmarva Peninsula, so named for the three states that divide it. There's the entire of Delaware on the eastern aspect. It's flanked by Maryland to the west and the bottom 70 or so miles of that spit of land make up Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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US thirteen runs down the backbone of the Eastern Shore and to power south on it's miles to go away behind the pace and the hassles inherent in residing inside the relaxation of the northeastern US. The miles pass huge expanses of fertile fields dotted with pine and all rightflatwoods. Ocassional, orderly cities come into sight and there's a Spartan performance to them.
It's clean that for quite a few these cities, their best years are at the back of them. There's no real feel of loss that is quite simply apparent although. History runs very deep at the Eastern Shore, and that form of records leaves a human beings with the steely remedy that despite the fact that the best instances are inside the past, they'll come back.
About two-thirds of the way down the peninsula sits the town of Exmore, VA; and in what was once an Arrow shirt factory, New Ravenna Mosaics and Stone creates some of the most beautiful work in glass and stone available anywhere.
New Ravenna Mosaics and Stone is the largest organisation in Northhampton County. The a hundred those who arrive at that antique blouse manufacturing facility each morning are artisans in every feel of the word and their workplace is an atelier much greater than something that would be referred to as a factory.
Sara 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley based New Ravenna in 1991. She commenced as an artist with a passionate vision to convey splendor to the world via the medium of stone tesserae. That imaginative and prescient still burns as brightly as ever and her enthusiasm, her love, for the medium infuses the entirety about New Ravenna.
While it is proper that New Ravenna utilizes an excellent collection of water jets, tumblers and moist saws; at the give up of the day they devise their artwork the manner mosaicists always have. Someone considers a bit of stone, cuts it into the form she desires and then sets it in vicinity. Repeat 10,000 instances.
19 years in the past, New Ravenna began out as a girl with a imaginative and prescient. 19 years later, New Ravenna is one hundred human beings with a shared imaginative and prescient.
Look through their entire collection on their website and follow New Ravenna's latest developments through Sara Balwin's blog . Oh, and if you ever find yourself in Exmore, VA; stop in for a visit. If you can't make it to Exmore, you can find a bit of New Ravenna's Exmore at distributors far and wide.