NEW ENGLAND WEAVERS SEMINARS 2021 – SATURDAY 17 JULY
Twice in one week?? What is going on? It's the New England Weavers Seminars 2021!!! Have you registered yet?? The closing date is Thursday 15th July and it's only $10 US to hear four international speakers! Here's the link so you can hop right on over! ...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lesley Willcock
NAME: Lesley Willcock BACKGROUND: Lesley and I first met (as she reminded me) at a shibori workshop that Kay Faulkner was leading at Chesham UK in December 2008. Lesley had only been weaving then for about 4 years but had just recently joined Complex Weavers and got...
How I Got Into Weaving – Andy Ross
NAME: Andy Ross BACKGROUND: Andy and I first got to know about each other via a mutual weaving friend Kathy Schicker. We were invited up to Shetland to service the AVL loom that the studio had acquired from Ann Sutton, and Andy invited us to stay, tour the island,...
How I Got Into Weaving – Jason Collingwood
NAME: Jason Collingwood BACKGROUND: Jason has been a fixture in the rug weaving world for many years. I actually first came to know about him through my visits to Peter Collingwood's studio through the aegis of the Ralph Griswold collection of books and materials on...
How I Got Into Weaving – Janna van Ledden
NAME: Janna van Ledden BACKSTORY: I started seeing some beautiful designs on various weaving Facebook groups, finding out they were designed and woven by Janna. I met her in person at a workshop I gave at Marian Stubentisky's studio in 2016. She is a truly...
How I Got Into Weaving – Laverne Waddington
NAME: Laverne Waddington BACKSTORY: It is through the wonders of the internet that Laverne came into my weaving life. I saw her amazing backstrap weaving online with its incredible detail and painstaking patterning which just sang in my heart and soul. The instant...
How I Got Into Weaving – Madelyn van der Hoogt
NAME: Madelyn van der Hoogt BACKSTORY: I became a weaver almost thirty years ago and even then Madelyn van der Hoogt was looked up to as one of the weaving greats of our time. She has been weaving, teaching and writing about weaving for forty years and continues to...
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...