by StaceyHB | Mar 28, 2021 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Lynn Smetko BACKSTORY: I first got to meet Lynn at both of our first Complex Weavers Seminars in 2006. I was immediately drawn to this very beautiful lady who radiates a love of life and people and a passion for her weaving. Whatever Lynn weaves is always...
by StaceyHB | Mar 14, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Bhakti Ziek BACKSTORY: Bhakti is well-known for her wonderful jacquard weaving and that is how I first came into her sphere of influence. Together with Alice Schlein, she produced the amazing The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby looms using...
by StaceyHB | Mar 7, 2021 | Book Review, Psychology, Publications
Did you know that the Dean of American Handweaving, Mary Meigs Atwater wrote a novel? And not just a novel – a crime novel? My dear friend Joy, who is not a weaver, asked me over a coffee whether I had ever heard of this lady called Mary Meigs Atwater. When I...
by StaceyHB | Feb 28, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Cathie Wier BACKSTORY: Cathie is a weaver who loves doubleweave and texture. She is inspired by nature, attracted to the layers, colors and textures that she observes in the forests and rivers of the Olympic Peninsula and beyond. She weaves one-of-a-kind...
by StaceyHB | Feb 21, 2021 | Art, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, textiles, Weaving
Are you a polymath or a butterfly brain? Firstly, what is a polymath? A dictionary definition has it that a polymath is a person of wide knowledge or learning and Wikipedia states “a polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects,...