Ring in the new year with an interview with amazing weaver and fiber artist Anita Luvera Mayer! She talks about her art garments, the artist's life, and much, much more. Sharon Schulze shares a "Swatch of the Day" in which she describes the rewards of taking on an ambitious project as a relatively new weaver. I share my weaving resolutions for 2007, and invite you to share yours. Read more >>
WeaveCast is one year old! Help us celebrate. We'll discuss woven shibori with Catharine Ellis, review her book, Woven Shibori, describe a swatch of the day, share listener comments, then end things up with a review of how WeaveCast has grown over the past year, and what's to come in 2007. Read more >>
Discover just how much you can do with the humble rigid-heddle loom! Our guest, Betty Linn Davenport, shares her techniques for taking the rigid-heddle loom to new heights. We review the new "Flip" folding rigid-heddle loom from Schacht, as well as Betty Davenport's book, Hands on Rigid Heddle Weaving, answer a listener question about setts for knitting yarns, I share great news from this past week, and we get an update on the "Teach a Friend to Weave" contest. Read more >>
This episode we take a behind-the-scenes look at the Certificate of Excellence, a self-study program developed and administered by the Handweaver’s Guild of America. We talk to Sandra Swarbrick, a past president of HGA about the origins of the COE. Then relate the story of the recent 2006 COE examination in handweaving from the point of view of an examiner, a scribe, and Level I and Level II applicants. Read more >>
This episode we celebrate the weaving teacher, those wonderful people who share their talents and knowledge with the rest of us. We have the results of the Teach a Friend to Weave contest, tell some of your stories, take a tour of The Weavers’ School on Whidbey Island, and talk to talented teachers Madelyn van der Hoogt and Peggy Osterkamp. Read more >>
This episode is all about those wonderful weaving periodicals that inspire and delight us. We talk to Madelyn Van Der Hoogt of Handwoven, Jean Scorgie of Weaver’s Craft, and Tina Ignell of Vävmagasinet. We discuss a summer reading list of fiction books that feature weavers, ask for your thoughts about an online weaving magazine, and finally, I share the details of my torrid summer love affair. Read more >>
This episode, we explore the synthesis of handweaving and electronics. We’ll review an automated pirn winder designed by John Stegmuller, talk with Laura MacCary, an innovative weaver who weaves electronic components that interact with the viewer. Finally, I’ll describe an unexpected lesson learned from weaving on a computer-controlled loom. Read more >>
This episode we’re talking about weaving traditions, both cultural and personal. We’ll hear from Viridiana Chavez in Oxaca, Mexico talk about Zapotec weaving traditions. Sigrid Piroch tells us about Annie Albers and the Bauhaus movemont, and shares her experiences with Sloviakian textile traditions. Rebekkah of Bowerbird Knits tells how weaving on a bead loom connected her to the tradition of man-made art. In the ending essay, we’ll discuss personal weaving traditions, and why sometimes, it’s good to break them. Read more >>
This episode we explore the rich weaving traditions of Scotland. We journey to the John C. Campbell folk school during Scottish Heritage Week and meet two amazing weavers: Majorie Warren and Barbara Miller. Then we hear the thrilling story of the Kilbarchan project, a research initiative to preserve undocumented historical Scottish weaves. Finally, I share my experiences learning to weave tartans and tweeds. Read more >>
This episode we talk about the ways weavers are using their art to help others. We’ll hear the amazing story of the weaving program at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. I’ll share some thoughts about how twist affects winding a warp, and in today’s essay, Kate Jantz-Koprivnik tells the tale of a simple weaving project that turned into an eleven-day adventure. Read more >>
Escape the dreary fall days with visions of brightly painted middle-eastern bazaars. This month we talk about weaving knotted pile rugs. The inspirational Sara Lamb talks about using color in weaving and her latest passion for knotted-pile weaving. We review an instructional video Cut-Pile Rug Weaving with Arlo Duker. In the swatch of the day, I describe learning pile weaving from Judith MacKenzie McCuin. And finally, the ending essay: Weaving fast; weaving slow. Read more >>
, answer a listener question about setts for knitting yarns, I share great news from this past week, and we get an update on the "Teach a Friend to Weave" contest.
