by StaceyW | Dec 20, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Vibeke Vestby BACKSTORY: I first learned about Vibeke Vestby when I acquired an industrial jacquard loom in 2004. Whilst at the Lisio Foundation in Florence, Italy, to learn how to design and weave on pre-industrial jacquard handlooms, I heard about a digital...
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 | Jun 17, 2012 | Education, Jacquard weaving, textiles, Travel, Weaving
I’ve had the most wonderful time this week in Norway with Vibeke Vestby trialling the new TC2 and looking at the looms which are going to be heading out to Convergence. I wish I was going with them!! These new looms are so much more elegant in appearance than...
