by StaceyW | Aug 10, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
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...
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 | Jul 1, 2020 | Education, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
It’s launch day for my Beneath the Surface monograph. It’s only taken 10 years (!) but finally my monograph on stitched double cloth, with piqué, matelassé, non-chemical cloqué, and using waffle weave to create fabulous deep texture is here. It has been...
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)...
