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Eileen Lee: From Quilts to Jeans to Painted Warps (classic)
Season 9
A career professional at Levi Strauss & Company, Eileen Lee learned about dyeing, weaving, and sewing on an international scale: giant factories full…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lilly Marsh, Custom Weaver
Season 9
Lilly Marsh creates blankets, shawls, and other cloth, almost exclusively from local wool. Working closely with farmers and the nearby Battenkill Fib…
2 years ago
Annie MacHale, Inkle Artist
Season 9
The call of complexity draws some weavers to more shafts, more structures, more hand-manipulated techniques. For Annie MacHale, refining the techniqu…
2 years ago
Alissa Allen, Mycopigments
Season 9
“Rule number one: Never drink the dye bath.”
Indigo and cochineal may be the most widely recognized natural dyes for many fiber artists, and there’…
2 years, 1 month ago
Sally Fox, Colored Cotton Breeder
Season 8
In a period when agriculture moved toward chemicals, genetic engineering, and monoculture, Sally Fox decided to explore what could happen if she coll…
2 years, 1 month ago
Spotlight Episode: Yarn Barn of Kansas
Season 8
When Susan Bateman first opened Yarn Barn of Kansas in 1971, a woman starting a small business couldn’t get a credit card in her own name. Weavers li…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca Mezoff (classic)
Season 8
There may be no other type of textile that is more art and craft at the same time than tapestry weaving. Tapestry allows the weaver to create images …
2 years, 2 months ago
Hannah Thiessen Howard, Slow Knitting
Season 8
For Hannah Thiessen Howard, slow knitting isn’t about the speed of making stitches or finishing projects. Swift and leisurely knitters alike can embr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Keisha Cameron, High Hog Farm
Season 8
Although she grew up in the freezing winters of New York, Keisha Cameron and her husband decided to move their young family to a peri-urban spot outs…
2 years, 3 months ago
Justin Squizzero, The Burroughs Garret
Season 8
Justin Squizzero loves exploring the frontiers of technology, seeing how he can tune a piece of equipment to produce a complex textile. The technolog…
2 years, 3 months ago