How I Got Into Weaving – Deirdre Wood
NAME: Deirdre Wood BACKSTORY: Deirdre's work fascinates me, especially when she started exploring curved shapes through the use of yarn properties. She specialises in narrow strip weaving. I listened to a talk at a symposium and found it fascinating to hear how she...
How I Got Into Weaving – Jennifer Moore
NAME: Jennifer Moore BACKSTORY: Back in 2010, Handweavers Guild of America's biennial conference, Convergence, was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I had the pleasure of giving two presentations there and also of being the juror for the yardage competition, which is...
NEW ENGLAND WEAVERS SEMINARS 2021 – SATURDAY 17 JULY
Twice in one week?? What is going on? It's the New England Weavers Seminars 2021!!! Have you registered yet?? The closing date is Thursday 15th July and it's only $10 US to hear four international speakers! Here's the link so you can hop right on over! ...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lesley Willcock
NAME: Lesley Willcock BACKGROUND: Lesley and I first met (as she reminded me) at a shibori workshop that Kay Faulkner was leading at Chesham UK in December 2008. Lesley had only been weaving then for about 4 years but had just recently joined Complex Weavers and got...
How I Got Into Weaving – Andy Ross
NAME: Andy Ross BACKGROUND: Andy and I first got to know about each other via a mutual weaving friend Kathy Schicker. We were invited up to Shetland to service the AVL loom that the studio had acquired from Ann Sutton, and Andy invited us to stay, tour the island,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Jason Collingwood
NAME: Jason Collingwood BACKGROUND: Jason has been a fixture in the rug weaving world for many years. I actually first came to know about him through my visits to Peter Collingwood's studio through the aegis of the Ralph Griswold collection of books and materials on...
How I Got Into Weaving – Janna van Ledden
NAME: Janna van Ledden BACKSTORY: I started seeing some beautiful designs on various weaving Facebook groups, finding out they were designed and woven by Janna. I met her in person at a workshop I gave at Marian Stubentisky's studio in 2016. She is a truly...
How I Got Into Weaving – Laverne Waddington
NAME: Laverne Waddington BACKSTORY: It is through the wonders of the internet that Laverne came into my weaving life. I saw her amazing backstrap weaving online with its incredible detail and painstaking patterning which just sang in my heart and soul. The instant...
How I Got Into Weaving – Madelyn van der Hoogt
NAME: Madelyn van der Hoogt BACKSTORY: I became a weaver almost thirty years ago and even then Madelyn van der Hoogt was looked up to as one of the weaving greats of our time. She has been weaving, teaching and writing about weaving for forty years and continues to...