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Stephenie Gaustad Makes the Cloth of her Dreams
Season 4
In the early 1970s, a lively community and spirit of fearless exploration sprang up in Northern California that sent ripples around the country and s…
4 years ago
Kate Larson: Shepherd, Teacher, Editor
Season 4
Kate Larson's first childhood memory is of meeting a lamb on her family's farm in rural Indiana. That connection with sheep and the land forms the an…
4 years, 1 month ago
Amy Norris, Weaving Community Organizer
Season 4
Since Amy Norris learned to weave in the late 1980s, the digital age has swept through weaving in two ways: by linking the global community of weaver…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Moore: Doubleweave Beyond Borders
Season 4
What does it mean to revive a skill that's been lost for centuries?
In Inca and pre-Inca cultures, weavers in the Andes practiced a form of doublew…
4 years, 1 month ago
Melvenea Hodges, Traditions in Cloth
Season 4
Melvenea Hodges nurtures a small crop of cotton in her back yard in South Bend, Indiana. Besides beautiful foliage and some of her favorite fiber to …
4 years, 2 months ago
Natalie Dupuis, Goldwork Embroidery Artist
Season 4
When you imagine goldwork embroidery, do you picture something flashy, glinting, and formal? You might be surprised to discover that goldwork or meta…
4 years, 2 months ago
John Marshall, Katazome Artist
Season 4
Working in the studio of a Japanese dollmaker, seventeen-year-old John Marshall learned skills for every step of the process from making glass eyes t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Karen Selk, Wild Silk Seeker
Season 4
You may think of silk as just slick and shiny. (There's a reason we say "as smooth as silk.") But as she chased the thread of silk across Asia and th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Eileen Lee: From Quilts to Jeans to Painted Warps
Season 3
A career professional at Levi Strauss & Company, Eileen Lee learned about dyeing, weaving, and sewing on an international scale: giant factories full…
4 years, 5 months ago
Dr. Susan Kay-Williams, Royal School of Needlework
Season 3
Part of the Royal School of Needlework's collection is in tatters . . . by design.
The collection includes some fine examples of stitching techniques…
4 years, 6 months ago