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Weave Podcast
Episode 103: Researching Natural Dyes For The Next Generation of Fashion Professionals with Kelsie Doty
Kelsie’s work aims to teach the next generation of fashion professionals about design and sustainability through scientific research and experimentation of natural dyes for the commercial market.
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Episode 102: Tapestry Weaving in Quebec with Thoma Ewen
Thoma is a tapestry weaver in Quebec, Canada whose work focuses on a lifelong love of the natural environment. She is also the founder of Moon Rain, a center for tapestry weaving and teaching, and a place for creative retreat and renewal.
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Episode 101: Weaving through Lupus and MS with Lynn Battle in Birmingham Alabama
Lynn Battle is an incredibly talented self-taught weaver who began weaving to help offset her symptoms after being diagnosed with Lupus and MS.
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Episode 100: Designing Weaving and Knitting Patterns with Angela Tong
Angela Tong is a designer of knitting & weaving patterns, a pottery maker and a Mirrix Looms brand ambassador.
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Episode 99: Revitalizing the American Textile Industry with Leigh Anne Hilbert of The Carolina Textile District
Leigh Anne Hilbert is the Network Coordinator for the Carolina Textile District, an enterprise of The Industrial Commons.Leigh also opened The Drygoods Studios, a community driven mixed-use studio space in the heart of West Asheville, where she sells her canvas and leather bags and accessories.
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Episode 98: Navajo Rug Weaving Restoration with Penelope Starr in Tucson Arizona
Penelope repairs damaged Navajo rugs by reweaving them in order to restore their original pattern. Navajo rugs are textiles produced by the second most populous of all native indigenous groups in the United States, the Navajo people.
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Episode 97: Weaving in South Philadelphia with Melonie Cavallaro Wallace of Fibre Studio
Melonie Cavallaro Wallace is a fine artist and weaver. Melonie studied Fine Art and Art History in Italy where she discovered her passion for classic oil painting, world culture and combining global textures, form, and color.
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Episode 96: Quilting and Natural Dye Cultivating in Oakland with Kristin Arzt of Scrambles Quilts
Kristin is a quilter, natural dye grower and artist instructor residing in Oakland, California. She fuses yoga and wellness with her fiber practice and I'm excited to have her on the podcast this week to talk about her experience working in the beautiful natural fiber hub, Northern California.
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Episode 95: Interdisciplinary Craft Making and Agriculture with Catherine Cross Tsintzos
Catherine is an Interdisciplinary-Multidisciplinary Artist with a focus on environmental and social issues, traditional fine craft and sustainability.
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Listener Appreciation Episode !
This week is a special mailbag episode featuring emails and comments from listeners who’ve written to us. This podcast has steadily grown and this is our way of showing gratitude for your very kind words. The team at GistYarn is so thankful for your support!
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Episode 94: An Exploration of the Vanishing American Wool Industry with Clara Parkes
In our conversation, we talk about her most recent publication “Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool.” A tale of her year-long exploration traveling to farms and mills across America in order to transform a 676-pound bale of fleece into commercial yarn.
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Episode 93: Commercial Scale Local Wool Carding and Spinning with Mary Jeanne Packer of Battenkill Fibers
Mary Jeanne Packer is the owner of Battenkill Fibers in Greenwich, New York. Battenkill Fibers is the last standing wool fiber mill in New York offering commercial scale carding and spinning for fiber farms and manufactures of yarn and fiber products.
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