How I Got Into Weaving – Katharina Krönig
NAME: Katharina Krönig BACKSTORY: I have known Katharina for a few years - we both attended the same workshop run by Bonnie Inouye - but our relationship has developed quite recently. I am working on a project involving optical illusions which have fascinated me...
Weaving for Health and Well-Being
Weaving has long been associated with health, along with other textile and craft disciplines. For years hospitals had occupational health departments which often included handlooms and weaving equipment. For hand/eye co-ordination and for improving concentration and...
How I Got Into Weaving – Vibeke Vestby
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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Cally Booker
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...
Pushing the Limits – Virtual Shaft-Loom Weaving Exhibition
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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Susie Taylor
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 behind...
How I Got Into Weaving – Alice Schlein
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...
Weaving, Yoga and Meditation
"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 probably right in one way. My weaving...
How I Got Into Weaving – Janice Lessman-Moss
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...
Exhibition Review – Françoise Vallée and Inge Zorn-Gauthier
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 centre of the...
How I Got Into Weaving – Laura Thomas
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 Fellowship,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Sally Eyring
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 her...