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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.
Episode 76: Contextualizing Textiles Part Two with LaChaun Moore
LaChaun is talking about her progress growing naturally colored cotton and indigo suffruticosa in Low Country South Carolina.
Episode 144: New Farm and Fiber Beginnings with Michelle Brooks and LaChaun Moore
In this week's conversation, LaChaun is switching roles to be interviewed by Michelle Brooks. LaChaun gives and update on her fiber and farming journey as well as some insights into her experieces in fiber and how they relate to Michelle's experiences as well.
Episode 109: A Deep Reckoning with Sarah Resnick and LaChaun Moore
LaChaun and Sarah talk about issues of racism and White Supremacy, and the ways they are deeply embedded into our textile industries and communities. This country and the world and all of us are reacting to the murder of George Floyd and so many other Black people at the hands of the police.
A Message On Voting in the 2020 Election with Sarah and LaChaun
In this week’s episode, LaChaun and Sarah give a short personal account of why they feel it is important to vote in the 2020 Electoral Campaign.
Episode 65: Doubleweaving with Jennifer Moore
Jennifer Moore is an experienced weaver, teacher, and author. Jennifer’s weaving has been widely exhibited for the past thirty years, and has won awards throughout the United States and abroad.
Episode 128: Emanating From The Textures with Torrey Beckham
Torrey is a Texas-born Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who uses weaving, plants, and many other creative mediums to create a space for black and queer folks to see themselves reflected in the work emanating from the textures.
Episode 133: Regenerative Storytelling with Amy DuFault
Amy is a sustainable textile industry writer. She works as the sustainability and communications Director for Botanical Colors as well as the Communications Lead for TS Designs and co-runs the Southeastern New England Fibershed.
Episode 132: A New Look For Gist Yarn with Maggie Putnam
For the last seven months we have been working with Maggie Putnam on redesigning our brand identity and rebuilding our website to better reflect the company we’ve become.
Episode 129: Weaving Sustainability and Social Justice with Sarah Gotowka of Luna Fiber Studio
Sarah Gotowka is the Founder and Director of Luna Fiber Studio, a textile studio specializing in weaving and natural dyes, rooted in sustainability and social justice.
Episode 134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez
Carolina Jimenez is a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poured, molded or reshaped (woven, unraveled, or stretched).
Episode 135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs
Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Episode 139: Rhythm and Texture with Multimedia Artist and Musician Lea Thomas
On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Lea Thomas. Born in Hawaii and based in Brooklyn, Lea Thomas is a multimedia artist with a focus on music and weaving.
Episode 126: Poetic Political Quilt Making with Mathematician Chawne Kimber
Chawne Kimber isan African-American mathematician and quilter, known for expressing her political activism in her quilts.
Episode 125: Weaving and Tufting with Jessie Mordine Young
Jessie Mordine Young is a textile curator, teacher of traditional textile techniques, and maker living in New York City.
Episode 127: Historic Wild Indigo on Johns Island South Carolina with Leigh Magar
Indigo farmer,textile artist, and dressmaker Leigh Magar talks about her textile design studio “Madame Magar” which is inspired by art, nature, folkways, and history.
Episode 138: Introducing Twofold with Gist’s Very Own Christine Jablonski
Christine Jablonksi is the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave.
Episode 145: Weaving Skies with Kesiena Onosigho
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with one of our artists in residence Kesiena Onosigho. Kesiena's thought-provoking mixed-media collages and installations are informed by her lived experiences, curiosity, and the historic influence on arts & crafts from people within the African Diaspora.
Episode 146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad
In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and cultural porosity.
Episode 142: Traditions in Cloth with Melvenea Hodges
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Melvenea Hodges. Melvenea creates clothing and accessories using traditional techniques such as block printing, sewing, weaving, spinning, knitting, crocheting, and embroidery. On a small scale, Melvenea grows processes and spins naturally colored cotton that she weaves with.
Episode 137: Entangling Craft and Tech with Shanel Wu
Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech.
Episode 147: It's Not About Perfection But Expression with adé Oh
In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with adé Oh (they/themme/àjé) an afrosurrealist, animist, and multimedia healing artist. At Gist, we are lucky to support them as one of our artists in residence of 2022 and as a guest on the podcast this week.
Episode 136: Heirloom Naturally Colored Cotton in Shades of Pink with Maud Lerayer of Behind The Hill
Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton which grows wild in shades of pink, terra-cotta, green, beige, and white in Mexico and Guatemala.
Episode 124: Accountability In Fashion with Lauren B. Fay of The New Fashion Initiative
Lauren B. Fay isthe founder and executive director of the New Fashion Initiative. The New Fashion Initiative is a foundation creating interdisciplinary education and communications initiatives to promote circulatory collaboration, and accountability in the fashion industry.
Episode 37: Black Cotton with Julius Tillery
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 143: Making a Life with Melanie Falick
In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with author and maker Melanie Falick. Melanie traveled across continents to meet quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, all to uncover truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today.
Episode 130: Regenerative Fashion with Lydia Wendt of California Cloth Foundry
In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Lydia Wendt the Founder and Design Director of the California Cloth Foundry, who's mission is to positively change the industry one bolt of fabric and garment at a time.
WEAVE: The Artist in Residence Program
WEAVE the artist residency is a 12-week long remote residency that aims to support weavers and fiber enthusiasts who engage in community-based fiber practices. Each participant will receive a $1,500.00 cash stipend to use with no restrictions, and a $1,500.00 materials budget to shop for materials on the Gist Yarn website.
Episode 78: The Colors of Norfolk England with Aviva Leigh
Aviva Leigh an experienced natural dyer and weaver of contemporary woven and stitched textiles living in Aylsham , a ‘cittaslow’ town in Norfolk, England.
Episode 54: Sea Island Indigo with Donna Hardy
Donna is an indigo grower and dyer located in Athens, Georgia. She has worked with various indigo varieties but is known mainly for working with a tropical indigofera variety that originated over 250 years ago.
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.
Episode 86: Handspun Homegrown Naturally Colored Cotton with Yuka Bullard
Yuka is a Japan born cotton grower, spinner & weaver of naturally colored brown and green cotton currently living in the Southern United States.
Episode 104: Therapeutically Weaving In The Round with Ashton Zager
Ashton is a fiber artist based out of her home in Asheville, North Carolina. She’s a self taught weaver, known for her beautiful circular weavings and woven jewelry pieces.
Episode 106: Locally Sourced Hand Weaving with Stephanie Pinerio of Shed Textile Company
Shed Textile Company focuses on the art of hand weaving and local fibers in New York State. The fibers used in her pieces are hand-sourced locally from farmers, spinners, shearers, dyers, makers, tradesmen, and the countless regional fiber festivals that dot the countryside every year.
Episode 49: Climate Beneficial Textile Farming with Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed
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.
Episode 56: Korean Indigo with Euna Lee of Kindigo
Kindigo is a Korean brand , making sustainable & skin-friendly textile products with Korean natural indigo. They run an indigo farm and several indigo workshops in order to introduce Korean indigo extraction and dyeing methods to people today.
Episode 60: Natural Dyeing in Budapest with Sara Hajgato
Sara is a Hungarian natural dyer and small scale grower based in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past year she has been collaborating with a rural eco-community to grow dye plants and run small-scale experiments, in which she re-purposes vintage garments with natural dyes.
149: Weaving Wisdom with the Black Sheep Fiber Circle
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Jamila Norman a.k.a (Farmer J), Lauren Soleil, and Keisha Cameron of the Black Sheep Fiber Circle, a maker-style sista' circle and fiber arts gathering dedicated to BIPOC land stewards and agrarian artists who love to create, enjoy, and explore the legacy of African and Indigenous-American textiles.
Episode 39 : Raising Alpacas on a Fiber Farm with Kacie Lynn
Kacie Lynn is a textile artist and farmer who studied Apparel Design and then decided to sustainably raise alpacas on a small homestead in the Tennessee foothills.
Episode 116: Healing Inspiration with Cynthia Alberto Founder of Weaving Hand A Studio Based in Brooklyn New York
Cynthia Alberto is the founder and director of The Weaving Hand, a weaving and healing arts center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.We invited her back on the podcast to talk about how she’s cultivating a healing environment using weaving during a time when we could all use some healing inspiration.
Episode 112: Curating Textile Art with Wouter de Vries and Dorothé Swinkels of Textile Plus Magazine
Wouter de Vries and Dorothe Swinkels of Textile Plus magazine. Textile Plus is a Dutch magazine and website that’s published every three months showcasing works of textile artists around the globe.
Episode 41: Flax to Linen with Sandy Fisher of Chico Flax
Chico Flax is a movement to promote a more self-reliant flax-to-fabric textile industry in the Northern Sacramento Valley. Sandy, along with other regional growers and gardeners, grows, harvests, and processes the plant for fiber.
Open Call for Pattern Designers 2022
Weaving the seasons is what's inspiring us to get behind our looms for 2022. Whether you're inspired to weave a set of napkins for a sunny summer beach lunch or a cozy wool blanket to snuggle up with loved ones to keep warm. Perhaps you're thinking of a design that can be useful in multiple seasons.
Open Call for Pattern Designers
Episode 74: Ancestral Textile Making with Miriam Vegara
Miriam Vegara isa Brooklyn-born Mexican American textile artist and educator.
Episode 43: Urban Gardening for Textiles in The South Bronx with Sajata Epps
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.
