by StaceyHB | 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 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 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 | Sep 20, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Psychology, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Lia Cook BACKSTORY: Lia’s work has long entranced and engaged me. She is a Bay Area (San Francisco, California, US) visual artist who combines weaving with painting, photography, video, and digital technology to explore the sensuality of the woven image...
by StaceyHB | Aug 23, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Cathryn Amidei BACKSTORY: Cathryn is an awesome jacquard weaver. We first connected through Complex Weavers and Pat Williams who had been Cathryn’s graduate advisor at Eastern Michigan University and who was a friend of mine through my acquisition of an...
by StaceyHB | Oct 4, 2019 | Education, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Autumn has been late arriving here in Gascony, South West France. It’s a lovely time of year here – the sun is still beautifully warm, the rainy days few and far between, the fields a range of yellows, browns and green which turn golden, orange and russet...