Fibershed started as a personal project of Rebecca’s where she sought out a wardrobe that could be tracked within 150 miles of her location. And that personal project turned into a pioneering source for the progression towards a more sustainable equitable textile farming industry across the US.
Fibrevolution is a seed-to-seed producer of high quality organic bast fiber, yarn, and cloth born of regenerative processes, sustainable systems, carbon farming practices, regional manufacturing and community education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Smita is the founder of Indigo Handloom, which works with over 500 weavers in rural India to produce beautiful, handwoven textiles using ancient techniques.
