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.
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.
Irene is the founder of Cotton Clouds, a cotton weaving yarn and spinning business which has been beloved by our fiber community for decades. Irene started her business in 1978 - the era of polyester! - and has been going against that grain and supplying beautiful high quality cotton and other natural fibers ever since.
Located in Saco, Maine, Maine Dye and Textiles dyes a wide range of yarn from gorgeous wools for Brooklyn Tweed and other knitting yarn companies, to nylon yarns for more industrial purposes.
Val is an artist, weaver, and graphic designer in Pasadena, California. She creates a stunning range of woven art pieces, and also makes zipper pouches, tote bags, and other pieces from handwoven and hand-dyed materials.
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.
Liz Gipson, founder of Yarnworker, a fantastic resource and teaching community for rigid heddle weavers. Liz is a former managing editor of Handwoven and Spin-Off magazines, she has made many guest appearances on HGTV, DIY, and PBS how-to craft programming, and has multiple DVDs from Interweave on rigid heddle weaving.
Susan shares about her journey to becoming Editor, her tips for submitting projects or article to Handwoven, what a week-in-the-life of working on Handwoven is like, her tips for weavers, and so much more.
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.
Maryanne Moodie is a fiber artist and weaver in Melbourne, Australia. She uses vibrant, unexpected color combinations in her tapestries and wall hangings, and her work as been featured in New York Magazine, O Magazine, Interwoven, on Design Sponge, and many other places!
Paula Stebbins Becker has been designing woven dobby and jacquard fabrics for the residential furniture and decorative jobber trades for more than 30 years.
