by StaceyW | Aug 23, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Jul 26, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Jul 12, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
NAME: Bonnie Inouye BACKSTORY: Bonnie Inouye’s book Exploring Multishaft Design (currently out of print) has for many weavers been the way into much more exciting cloth and learning many different techniques. I met Bonnie through Complex Weavers and her many...
by StaceyW | Jul 5, 2020 | Art, Education, Life, Philosophy, textiles, Weaving
You know when something pushes you out of your comfort zone and you feel decidedly unbalanced? Well, I do now. It’s exciting, it’s exhilarating and it’s definitely a bit unnerving!! It’s been an interesting week with the launch off Beneath the...
by StaceyW | Jun 28, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Janet Phillips BACKSTORY: Janet was another weaver who was always there when I first started weaving and who has stood the test of time. Her first book The Weaver’s Book of Fabric Design (1983), (her second, Designing Woven Fabrics, was published in 2008)...
by StaceyW | Jun 21, 2020 | Art, Book Review, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, textiles, Weaving
The title of today’s blog is actually the title of a book I’ve been reading. It’s about jazz, but before you quickly skip on to the next item on your Facebook feed or scroll down to the next email in your inbox, it also applies to weaving. Written in...
