How I Got Into Weaving – Belinda Rose
NAME: Belinda Rose BACKSTORY: Belinda is a quiet, understated person with a wicked sense of humour which I love, and an individual approach to her weaving practice. I'm not quite sure when we first met but I went up to weave on Belinda's TC-1 in 2009 in her studio in...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lynn Smetko
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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Bhakti Ziek
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...
Weaving fiction
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 said,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Cathie Wier
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...
Are you a polymath or a butterfly brain?
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,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Marian Stubenitsky
NAME: Marian Stubenitsky BACKSTORY: Marian had been on my radar for a number of years as an excellent weaving teacher before she brought out her book Echo & Iris. Then I took a workshop with her in the Dordogne, France, along with a few friends and fellow weavers...
How I Got Into Weaving – Wendy Morris
NAME: Wendy Morris BACKSTORY: I can't remember when Wendy and I first met, but I can tell you, as can many others, that Wendy has had a huge impact on me as a weaver, and as a friend! Her common sense approach, her willingness to be always learning, her inspirational...
French wool on the up …
It's not often that I can bring you news from French woollen textiles companies. This article is drawn from a piece in The Connexion, a monthly English-language subscription paper in France which keeps us updated with all the details of the ever-changing scenario and...
How I Got Into Weaving – Agnes Hauptli
NAME: Agnes Hauptli BACKSTORY: Agnes and I first met back in 2008, at a Convergence class called the 3Ds of 3D run by Ruby Leslie. Right from the start we hit it off, two passionate weavers keen to learn whatever we could and with a shared zany sense of humour! We...
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...