by StaceyHB | 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 StaceyHB | 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 StaceyHB | 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 StaceyHB | 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 StaceyHB | 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...
