by StaceyHB | Sep 6, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Nature, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Rosalie Neilson BACKSTORY: I first learnt about Rosalie through a friend who was taking a workshop class with Rosalie at Convergence. I saw the samples produced at this workshop in warp rep and was blown away by the colours, the designs, the possibilities of...
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 | Aug 10, 2020 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
NAME: Laura Fry BACKSTORY: I first met Laura in person whilst I was living in Tean in the UK – I can’t remember the year now – but she came with weaver Kerstin Fröberg whilst they were travelling around the UK. What an honour. Whilst I hadn’t...
by StaceyHB | Jul 26, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Philosophy, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
NAME: Jennie Parry BACKSTORY: Jennie Parry’s braiding was something that attracted me right from the first moment of seeing her work. Her delicate touch, her imagination, her use of less usual materials such as paper and her dedication to her textile discipline...
by StaceyHB | Jul 12, 2020 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
NAME: Bonnie Inouye BACKSTORY: Bonnie Inouye’s book Exploring Multishaft Design (currently out of print) has for many weavers been the way into much more exciting cloth and learning many different techniques. I met Bonnie through Complex Weavers and her many...
by StaceyHB | Jul 1, 2020 | Education, Publications, Teaching, Weaving
It’s launch day for my Beneath the Surface monograph. It’s only taken 10 years (!) but finally my monograph on stitched double cloth, with piqué, matelassé, non-chemical cloqué, and using waffle weave to create fabulous deep texture is here. It has been...