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Heavenly Bresser, Spinning Wheel Magnet
Season 2
People used to ask Heavenly Bresser why she had 11 spinning wheels. Not any more. (For one thing, she now has 29—and counting—wheels.) Each one has …
5 years ago
Deb Menz, Color Girl
Season 2
Teacher and artist Deb Menz made herself comfortable in a subject that many fiber artists shy away from. Students arrive in her classes with dispirit…
5 years ago
Rebecca Mezoff, Tapestry Weaver
Season 2
Rebecca Mezoff became a tapestry weaver as an adult after a career in occupational therapy, finding that it suited her artistically and let her use o…
5 years, 1 month ago
Linda Cortright, Wild Fibers
Season 2
In 2004, Linda Cortright began publishing Wild Fibers, a magazine that tells the stories of natural fibers from seemingly ordinary (mohair) to jaw-dr…
5 years, 1 month ago
Franklin Habit: Author, Illustrator, Teacher
Season 2
Franklin Habit is often mobbed at fiber events, by fans of his own work or of his scandalous Romney, Dolores Van Hoofen. For this episode, we were lu…
5 years, 2 months ago
Maggie Casey & Judy Steinkoenig, Yarn Store Owners
Season 2
Maggie Casey and Judy Steinkoenig are well known as teachers and writers. Almost every day for 28 years, you would have found one or both of them beh…
5 years, 2 months ago
John Mullarkey, Tablet Weaver
Season 2
When you picture weaving, does the image of a big floor loom come to mind, or a heddle that holds the threads in place? How about a stack of perforat…
5 years, 3 months ago
Louie García, Pueblo Weaver
Season 2
Visiting museums and archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Louie García finds inspiration to revive the fiber techniques of the past. But w…
5 years, 3 months ago
Episode 9: Norman Kennedy Spins Tales of Waulking
Season 1
It's easy to fall under the spell of Norman Kennedy as he shares stories of the old ways of spinning and weaving, which he learned from some of the l…
5 years, 8 months ago
Episode 8: Keith Recker: True (and Natural) Colors
Season 1
As an author, color expert, and publisher, Keith Recker's path returns over and over to handmade textiles. From the colors of turmeric and indigo to …
5 years, 9 months ago