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French wool on the up …

French wool on the up …

by StaceyHB | Jan 24, 2021 | Education, Life, Nature, Publications, textiles, Travel

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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Agnes Hauptli

How I Got Into Weaving – Agnes Hauptli

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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Vibeke Vestby

How I Got Into Weaving – Vibeke Vestby

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...
Exhibition Review – Françoise Vallée and Inge Zorn-Gauthier

Exhibition Review – Françoise Vallée and Inge Zorn-Gauthier

by StaceyHB | Oct 22, 2020 | Art, Education, textiles, Travel

I know that this textile exhibition is currently in Agen, the ‘county town’ of Lot-et-Garonne, where I live in SW France and that most of you will not get the chance to see it, but I still wanted to tell you about it as it is a lovely exhibition in the...
How I Got Into Weaving – Lia Cook

How I Got Into Weaving – Lia Cook

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...
How I Got Into Weaving – Cathryn Amidei

How I Got Into Weaving – Cathryn Amidei

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...
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