How I Got Into Weaving – Agnes Hauptli
NAME: Agnes Hauptli BACKSTORY: Agnes and I first met back in 2008, at a Convergence class called the 3Ds of 3D run by Ruby Leslie. Right from the start we hit it off, two passionate weavers keen to learn whatever we could and with a shared zany sense of humour! We...
How I Got Into Weaving – Katharina Krönig
NAME: Katharina Krönig BACKSTORY: I have known Katharina for a few years - we both attended the same workshop run by Bonnie Inouye - but our relationship has developed quite recently. I am working on a project involving optical illusions which have fascinated me...
Weaving for Health and Well-Being
Weaving has long been associated with health, along with other textile and craft disciplines. For years hospitals had occupational health departments which often included handlooms and weaving equipment. For hand/eye co-ordination and for improving concentration and...
How I Got Into Weaving – Vibeke Vestby
NAME: Vibeke Vestby BACKSTORY: I first learned about Vibeke Vestby when I acquired an industrial jacquard loom in 2004. Whilst at the Lisio Foundation in Florence, Italy, to learn how to design and weave on pre-industrial jacquard handlooms, I heard about a digital...
How I Got Into Weaving – Cally Booker
NAME: Cally Booker BACKSTORY: Cally Booker is based in Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. It is some years ago now that we first met and we share the history of both undertaking the Bradford Diploma of Handloom Weaving, albeit at different times. A past President...
Pushing the Limits – Virtual Shaft-Loom Weaving Exhibition
This week has seen the launch of a very exciting exhibition organised by Olivier Masson and Lala de Dios. Lala, who is a tireless promoter of weaving and has previously been the head of the European Textile Network, had the idea of putting together an online weaving...
How I Got Into Weaving – Susie Taylor
NAME: Susie Taylor BACKSTORY: Susie exploded onto my radar at Complexity a few years ago with her Weaving Origami pieces that blew so many of us away. It was intriguing - weavers standing around her work, heads on one side, craning forwards and trying to peek behind...
How I Got Into Weaving – Alice Schlein
NAME: Alice Schlein BACKSTORY: I have known Alice since 2006, I think, at my first Complex Weavers Seminars and right away realised the amazing depth and breadth of knowledge this incredible and very modest weaver holds in her head. For those of us who think that we...
Weaving, Yoga and Meditation
"Uh oh - Stacey's gone hippy" - that was actually what one person said when we were talking in a group about weaving and the conversation turned to what you do to keep fit for weaving. We all laughed, but the truth is that she's probably right in one way. My weaving...