by StaceyW | Jun 6, 2021 | Art, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | May 9, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Mar 14, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Bhakti Ziek BACKSTORY: Bhakti is well-known for her wonderful jacquard weaving and that is how I first came into her sphere of influence. Together with Alice Schlein, she produced the amazing The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby looms using...
by StaceyW | Feb 28, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Cathie Wier BACKSTORY: Cathie is a weaver who loves doubleweave and texture. She is inspired by nature, attracted to the layers, colors and textures that she observes in the forests and rivers of the Olympic Peninsula and beyond. She weaves one-of-a-kind...
by StaceyW | Feb 21, 2021 | Art, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, textiles, Weaving
Are you a polymath or a butterfly brain? Firstly, what is a polymath? A dictionary definition has it that a polymath is a person of wide knowledge or learning and Wikipedia states “a polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects,...
by StaceyW | Feb 14, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
NAME: Marian Stubenitsky BACKSTORY: Marian had been on my radar for a number of years as an excellent weaving teacher before she brought out her book Echo & Iris. Then I took a workshop with her in the Dordogne, France, along with a few friends and fellow weavers...
