How I Got Into Weaving – Janice Lessman-Moss
NAME: Janice Lessman-Moss BACKSTORY: Janice is best known to me through her jacquard work on the TC-1 which I first saw in the US around 2010, I think. Her level of complex layering, even on a shaft loom, really blew my mind, and still does. I loved how I could...
Exhibition Review – Françoise Vallée and Inge Zorn-Gauthier
I know that this textile exhibition is currently in Agen, the 'county town' of Lot-et-Garonne, where I live in SW France and that most of you will not get the chance to see it, but I still wanted to tell you about it as it is a lovely exhibition in the centre of the...
How I Got Into Weaving – Laura Thomas
NAME: Laura Thomas BACKSTORY: From 1999 - 2009, Ann Sutton had a weaving foundation at her home in Arundel and she encouraged the cross-over between industry and talented graduates by having several graduates at her studio as part of a Research Design Fellowship,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Sally Eyring
NAME: Sally Eyring BACKSTORY: Sally Eyring is an inventive weaver - if she wants to do something that no-one else has done (at least that she can find) then she will find a way to do it whether that means learning a new technique (the usual method) or adapting her...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lia Cook
NAME: Lia Cook BACKSTORY: Lia's work has long entranced and engaged me. She is a Bay Area (San Francisco, California, US) visual artist who combines weaving with painting, photography, video, and digital technology to explore the sensuality of the woven image and the...
How I Got Into Weaving – Rosalie Neilson
NAME: Rosalie Neilson BACKSTORY: I first learnt about Rosalie through a friend who was taking a workshop class with Rosalie at Convergence. I saw the samples produced at this workshop in warp rep and was blown away by the colours, the designs, the possibilities of...
How I Got Into Weaving – Cathryn Amidei
NAME: Cathryn Amidei BACKSTORY: Cathryn is an awesome jacquard weaver. We first connected through Complex Weavers and Pat Williams who had been Cathryn's graduate advisor at Eastern Michigan University and who was a friend of mine through my acquisition of an old...
How I Got Into Weaving – Laura Fry
NAME: Laura Fry BACKSTORY: I first met Laura in person whilst I was living in Tean in the UK - I can't remember the year now - but she came with weaver Kerstin Fröberg whilst they were travelling around the UK. What an honour. Whilst I hadn't met her in person before,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Jennie Parry
NAME: Jennie Parry BACKSTORY: Jennie Parry's braiding was something that attracted me right from the first moment of seeing her work. Her delicate touch, her imagination, her use of less usual materials such as paper and her dedication to her textile discipline are...