by StaceyW | Dec 13, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Dec 6, 2020 | Art, Education, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Nov 29, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Nov 15, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Nov 8, 2020 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
“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...
by StaceyW | Nov 1, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
