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Cassie Dickson, Coverlet Weaver & Sericulturist
Season 3
Whether it's growing and processing fiber or embroidering with handspun, hand-dyed linen thread, Cassie has always looked at traditional textiles and…
4 years, 6 months ago
Laurann Gilbertson, Chief Curator, Vesterheim
Season 3
The Vesterheim has 80 spinning wheels. Laurann Gilbertson says that they didn't really mean to have so many, but it seems that every woman who emigra…
4 years, 7 months ago
Deborah Robson, Wool Promoter
Season 3
Deborah Robson is known to, even revered by, a generation of handspinners as the author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook with Carol Ekarius. She ha…
4 years, 7 months ago
Anita Luvera Mayer, Weaver of Creative Coverings
Season 3
When she married her husband, "polyester kid" Anita Luvera Mayer received an extraordinary wedding gift from her mother-in-law: a loom and weaving le…
4 years, 8 months ago
Kenya Miles, Natural Dye Farmer & Artist
Season 3
Kenya Miles balances farming, teaching, community-building, and her own artwork. Besides cultivating madder, indigo, and other botanical colors, she …
4 years, 8 months ago
Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez, Andean Weaver
Season 3
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez first organized an informal project in the 1970s with weaver friends in Chinchero, an Andean village near Cusco, Peru. As th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Amy D. McKnight, Creative Weaver, Simple Looms
Season 3
Amy D. McKnight weaves not only doubleweave but point twill on a rigid-heddle loom, prefers a hybrid method of direct and indirect warping for long b…
4 years, 9 months ago
Mathew Gnagy, Costumer, Designer, Needleworker
Season 3
Mathew Gnagy has started to bring 16th-century to the streets. Wearing a hand-stitched, exquisitely tailored suit, whether inspired or patterned dire…
4 years, 10 months ago
Susan Druding, Teacher, Shop Owner, Activist
Season 2
Susan Druding was a graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley when she first learned to spin and weave. In the Bay Area of the 1960s,…
4 years, 11 months ago
Penelope Hemingway, Needlework Historian
Season 2
In addition to Viking and Anglo-Saxon reenactment, which drew Penelope Hemingway to learn handspinning and other textile crafts, she enjoys uncoverin…
4 years, 11 months ago