Community Building

Episode 39 : Raising Alpacas on a Fiber Farm with Kacie Lynn

Kacie Lynn is a textile artist and farmer who studied Apparel Design and then decided to sustainably raise alpacas on a small homestead in the Tennessee foothills.

Episode 37: Black Cotton with Julius Tillery

Community Building Cotton Farmers Personal Storytelling Social Consciousness

Julius is a cotton farmer from Northampton County in North Carolina. He grows cotton on his multi-generational family farm, and uses his Black cotton decor and accessories business as a tool to educate on the plight of rural black cotton farmers as well as a means of working towards his dream of turning his cotton into clothing.

Episode 33: Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors

Community Building Farmers Indigo Natural Dyeing Sustainable Fashion

Kathy Hattori, the founder of Botanical Colors, is for you! Botanical Colors supplies artisans and the textile industry with the materials and knowledge to dye textiles in a way that uses less water, is non-toxic and bio-degradable.

Episode 32: Participatory Weaving with Kacie Lyn Martinez

Community Building Contemporary Art Social Consciousness Weaving

Kacie Lyn Martinez is participatory fiber artist, facilitator, and systems designer. Kacie uses fiber arts to create spaces, tools, and technologies that honor our humanity.

Episode 30: Indigenous Textile Traditions with the Tixinda Dreamweavers

Community Building Natural Dyeing Social Consciousness Weaving

Amada is the representative for the Tixinda Dreamweavers cooperative of dyers, spinners, and weavers located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Patrice Perillie is an immigration rights attorney who works with the Tixinda cooperative to create and sell their work.

Episode 28: Contextualizing Textiles with LaChaun Moore

Community Building Contemporary Art Cotton Farmers Indigo Social Consciousness

LaChaun is an artist and weaver, an entrepreneur, a farmer, and so much more, and I’m excited to have her on the podcast today, and to have her producing the podcast for us.

Episode 24: Weaving Guilds with Jayne Flanagan

Community Building Weaving

Jayne is a very experienced weaver who lives in Maine. She has been active in starting and leading a number of weaving guilds, which is a topic I know many of you have been eager to hear about on the podcast.

Episode 21: Weaving Intertraditional Fabric with Shogo Hirata and Lisa Roos

Community Building Personal Storytelling Social Consciousness Weaving

Shogo is a Japanese textile artist based in Gothernberg, Sweden, and Lisa is a Swedish textile artist based in Stockholm. With Intertradition, they take inspiration from the Swedish weaving and pattern tradition and filter this through a Japanese traditional weaving technique, creating what they call intertraditional fabric.