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Planning for the Future with Sarah Resnick
Sarah records a solocast, sharing a window into how our business is adapting to this time, what we’re feeling scared about and hopeful about, and how we are planning for the future.
Episode 38: Textile Journeys with Sarah Resnick
This week, we're turning the tables a bit, LaChaun will be interviewing me (Sarah) for the show. In our conversation, we talk about how I became a weaver, and what inspired me to create the this little weaving yarn shop and start this podcast.
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.
Meet the Team: Sarah Resnick, Founder
We're so proud of our team of seven fiber enthusiasts, and felt it was only right for you to get to know everyone a little bit better. Today we're starting with Gist founder, Sarah Resnick.
In the Studio with Sarah Eller
Sarah Eller is a self-taught weaver with a background in art education. She has taught visual arts in schools in North Carolina and abroad in the U.A.E. She loves weaving elegant scarves and ponchos in natural fibers and is not afraid of experimenting with color.
Episode 9: Weaving as Meditation with Sarah Neubert
Sarah Neubert is a fiber artist who lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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.
Sunset Towels
A bright and cheerful set of cotton towels with a gradation between four vivid colors.
Pinstripe Tea Towels
This vibrant pinstripe pattern uses four colors of our 8/2 Un-Mercerized Cotton Weaving Yarn. Weave a set of six towels and experiment with color mixing in the warp and weft for a design that is truly one-of-a-kind.
Café Table Runner
A table runner that brings together the rustic texture of Duet Cotton/Linen and the classic elegance of Bronson lace.
Waffle Weave Lap Blanket
An extra plush blanket woven with Mallo Cotton Slub Weaving Yarn in a densely textured waffle weave structure.
Cozy Merino Rigid Heddle Scarf
This oh-so-simple scarf is made with 3 skeins of soft and cozy merino wool. Three shades of blue create a gradation of color through stripes in the warp and weft.
Rigid Heddle Dish Towels Pattern
Learn to weave a classic set of striped towels on your rigid heddle or multi-shaft loom.
Tencel Wave Scarf
This scarf pattern is a fun way to experiment with how different weft colors affect the same warp.
Pinstripe Napkins
A set of napkins using a playful pinstripe warp and color mixing in the weft.
Episode 69: Sweet Georgia Yarns with Felicia Lo Wong
Felicia is a designer and entrepreneur from Vancouver, Canada who started her company Sweet Georgia Yarns in 2005.
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 131: Letters from Our Community
Our team put together a really special episode for you to ring out this year, sharing some of our favorite customer stories that came into our email inbox this year.
Episode 44: Cultivating a Creative Weaving Practice with Andrea Carpenter
In this conversation we talk about how she cultivated a creative weaving practice to help her through a very challenging time, how she sees her work as a feminist and an artist intersecting, and lots more.
Episode 77: Ancient and Contemporary Weaving Techniques with Natalie Novak
o Natalie Novak is a tapestry weaver in Portland Oregon and the founder of Combed Thunder. Natalie draws from ancient and contemporary weaving techniques to explore color, mythology, folklore, and the (super) natural world.
Weaving with Beam ~ 3/2 Organic Cotton Yarn
This blog post is all about weaving with Beam.
Episode 61: Reclaiming Weaving, Dyeing, and Wood Carving with Stephen Hamilton
Stephen Hamilton is an artist and arts educator living and working in Boston. Stephen’s work incorporates both Western and African techniques, blending figurative painting and drawing with resist dyeing, weaving, and woodcarving.
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.
Episode 79: British Sheep Conservation and Ancestral Weaving with Margaret Russell
Margaret Russell is a weaver of almost 40 years. Margaret has a long ancestral history of weaving in her family, and is weaving in the same small coastal town in Northeastern Massachusetts as her great x 9 grandfather worked as a linen weaver in 1635.
Episode 105: Running A Small Family Wool Business With Ben Hostetler of Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Ben Hostetler is the Operations Manager at Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. They will be discussing what it's like running a small family business in the wool industry, how ranchers and their own mill are adapting to changes brought by COVID-19.
Episode 71: Weaving Wall Hangings with Allyson Rousseau
Ally is a Fibre Artist and Designer based out of Montréal, Québec. She is a tapestry weaver who has created close to 200 custom pieces for people all over the world, using her signature style of bold blocks and squares of colors.
Episode 81: Weaving Patterns with GIST Yarn Ambassador Mariah Gaar
Mariah Gaar is a weaver in Missouri, and also a GIST Yarn Ambassador, which means that she regularly works with our yarn and shares the projects she created with our community.
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.
Episode 75: An Artist Run Weaving Mill with Emily Winter
Emily Winter is the co-founder of The Weaving Mill, an artist-run industrial weaving studio in Chicago.
Episode 67: Hand Dyed and Woven Rugs with Jacqueline James
Jacqueline is a weaver in the UK specializing in the hand-dyed and handwoven rugs. She combines traditional weaving techniques with contemporary design style and a bold use of color.
Episode 85: Community Based Rigid Heddle Weaving with Amy McKnight
Amy is a North Carolina based fiber artist and weaver, and she and I first talked for episode 55 of the podcast. Amy talks about her most recent project traveling around her county to teach weaving and create a public community art project about the threads that bind her community together.
Episode 107: Supplying Fiber Folks in Philadelphia with Liz Sytsma of Wild Hand
Liz Sytsma is the founder of Wild Hand, a supply shop for fiber folks in Philadelphia.
Episode 63: A New Perspective on Weaving with Deb Brandon
Deb is a textile artist, writer, math professor, and brain injury survivor. She is also a board member of WARP Weave a Real Peace, and most recently is the author of Threads Around the World, a collection of essays and photographs sharing textile traditions from communities around the world.
Episode 117: Specialty Yarn in Valdese, North Carolina with Stephen Hudson of Meridian Specialty Yarn Group
Stephen is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Meridian Specialty Yarn Group and has held a number of roles in Operations and Sales throughout his tenure at the mill.
Episode 114: An Artisan Fiber Mill in Vermont with Susan Snider of Mad River Fiber Mill
Susan Snider is the founder of Mad River Fiber Mill. Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill is a full-service fiber processing mini mill in Waitsfield, Vermont, working with wool, alpaca, llama, mohair, and even angora fiber!
Episode 73: A Rigid Heddle Weaving Collaboration with Liz Gipson
Liz is a well known and beloved weaver, author, the founder of Yarnworker.com, and rigid heddle teacher extraordinaire.
Episode 46: Jane Patrick and Barry Schacht from Schacht Spindle Co
As weavers and spinners around the world know, Schacht is a beloved company making beautiful, high quality equipment for weavers and spinners. All of their products are made in Boulder, Colorado, and they are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
Episode 123: Cultivating a Contemporary Weaving Community with Gather Textiles
Gather is a yarn shop and textile studio in Edmonton Alberta. Their aim is to bring people together to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and to celebrate making things with our hands.
A New Look for Gist Yarn
Meet the new website! For the last seven months, we have been working on redesigning our brand identity and rebuilding our website to better reflect the company we have become, and to better serve our community.
How To Wet Finish Your Handwovens
Curious how to care for your handwoven piece after you take it off the loom? This post explains how to wet finish and care for handwoven cotton, linen, wool, alpaca, and silk.
6 Steps To Get Started With Rigid Heddle Weaving
Knitters and crocheters - we see you eyeing that rigid heddle loom! Come jump down the weaving rabbithole with us. This blog post shares everything you need to get started weaving on a rigid heddle loom.
Episode 66: Wool Fiber Farming with Tamara White of Wing & A Prayer Farm
Tamara is a sustainable wool fiber farmer, homesteader, and natural dye cultivator. She started out as a hobby farmer with her family but has recently transitioned to a production farm.
Recommended Weaving Teachers & Resources
This post shares some of our favorite weaving websites and teachers, and also links to some of the weaving resources we have tucked away on our own website.