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Weave Podcast
Episode 31: Handheld Looms with Angela Laswell Smith of Purl and Loop
Angela Laswell Smith i the founder and creative director of Purl and Loop. Purl and Loop specializes in making products to help weavers, including their wildly popular Swatch Maker 3-in-1, and a lot of other portable handheld looms and accessories.
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Episode 30: Indigenous Textile Traditions with the Tixinda Dreamweavers
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.
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Episode 29: Weaving Through Loss with Jen Arron
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.
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Episode 28: Contextualizing Textiles with LaChaun Moore
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.
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Episode 27: Weaving with Cotton with Irene Schmoller of Cotton Clouds
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.
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Episode 26: Dyeing Yarn with Maine Dye and Textiles
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.
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Episode 25: Weaving as Art and Craft with Val Echavarria
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.
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Episode 24: Weaving Guilds with Jayne Flanagan
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.
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Episode 23: Rigid Heddle Weaving with Liz Gipson of Yarnworker
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.
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Episode 22: Handwoven Magazine Editor Susan Horton
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.
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Episode 21: Weaving Intertraditional Fabric with Shogo Hirata and Lisa Roos
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.
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Episode 20: Weaving With Paper Yarn with Linda Thalmann of Paperphine
Linda is a textile artist in Vienna, Austria who makes paper yarn for weavers and other artists all over the world.
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