Personal Storytelling

Episode 50: Crossing Threads with Sisters Lauren and Kass Hernandez

Personal Storytelling Weaving

Lauren and Kass Hernandez are Australian-born sisters of Filipino heritage based in Sydney, and the founders of Crossing Threads. Their work is truly distinctive and highly textural.

Episode 44: Cultivating a Creative Weaving Practice with Andrea Carpenter

Personal Storytelling Weaving

In this conversation we talk about how she cultivated a creative weaving practice to help her through a very challenging time, how she sees her work as a feminist and an artist intersecting, and lots more.

Episode 43: Urban Gardening for Textiles in The South Bronx with Sajata Epps

Natural Dyeing Personal Storytelling Social Consciousness Urban Gardening

Sajata Epps isa founding member of the Kelly Street Collective in the Bronx, New York. Sajata is an artist and weaver who creates textile products for her lifestyle brand using recycled tools and natural materials from her urban gardening collective.

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 38: Textile Journeys with Sarah Resnick

Personal Storytelling Weaving

This week, we're turning the tables a bit, LaChaun will be interviewing me (Sarah) for the show. In our conversation, we talk about how I became a weaver, and what inspired me to create the this little weaving yarn shop and start this podcast.

Episode 29: Weaving Through Loss with Jen Arron

Personal Storytelling Weaving

Jen is an artist in Toronto, and a professional photographer turned weaver. She weaves intriguing sculptural pieces using a wide range of materials and her frame loom.

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.