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 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...
by StaceyW | Oct 22, 2020 | Art, Education, textiles, Travel
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...
by StaceyW | Oct 18, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyW | Oct 4, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
