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Louie García, Pueblo Weaver (classic)
Season 11
Visiting museums and archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Louie García finds inspiration to revive the fiber techniques of the past. He ha…
1 year, 4 months ago
Charan Sachar, Creative with Clay
Season 11
Like many spinners, Charan Sachar discovered fiber crafts without realizing that they would transform his life. While studying for a masters degree i…
1 year, 4 months ago
Julia Gomez: Colcha Embroidery
Season 11
When colonists first left Spain for what became Mexico and the American Southwest in 1598, they came with the continent’s first wool sheep. These wer…
1 year, 5 months ago
Irene Waggener, Knitting Researcher
Season 10
As a knitter in a new place, Irene Waggener looks for knitting as she explores. Not all of the countries where she finds herself have robust yarn-sho…
1 year, 5 months ago
Spotlight Episode: Louët
Season 10
In 1974, two young industrial designers in the Netherlands started a company making spinning wheels. Beginning in a family member’s chicken coop, the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Allan Brown, The Nettle Dress (classic)
Season 10
The Nettle Dress is available to stream online from November 15–December 2, 2024.
Most of us avoid nettles, thinking of them as weeds whose little st…
1 year, 6 months ago
Melvenea Hodges, Traditions in Cloth (classic)
Season 10
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 …
1 year, 6 months ago
Anita Osterhaug, Nordic Hands
Season 10
Exploring the textile traditions of her Scandinavian ancestors, supporting Indigenous Andean weavers in preserving their traditions, or producing mat…
1 year, 6 months ago
Elena Kanagy-Loux, Lacemaker & Historian
Season 10
When you picture lace, what comes to mind: an old-fashioned once-white piece of Victorian embellishment? The elegant, possibly itchy decoration on a …
1 year, 7 months ago
Nanne Kennedy, Polwarth Shepherd & Seawater Dyer
Season 10
Nanne Kennedy has her feet firmly planted in the soil of midcoast Maine. Growing up on a farm near the ocean, she could smell the salt air and small …
1 year, 7 months ago