by StaceyHB | Apr 11, 2021 | Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyHB | Mar 14, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Publications, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
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...
by StaceyHB | Jan 17, 2021 | Art, Education, How I Got Into Weaving, Jacquard weaving, Life, Nature, Teaching, textiles, Travel, Weaving
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...
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...
