37: Black Cotton with Julius Tillery
Julius Tillery is a cotton farmer from Northampton County in North Carolina, and the founder of Black Cotton. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-37
Oct 22, 2018•32 min
Weave
The weave podcast, a project of Gist Yarn, brings together a community of fiber artists and people who love weaving, farmers and mill owners, textile artists and loom manufacturers, to tell the stories of the threads that bind us together.
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36: Online Weaving Guild with Jane Stafford
Jane Stafford is a Canadian weaver, a much beloved weaving teacher, and the host of the JST Online Weaving Guild. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/epsiode-36
Oct 15, 2018•36 min
35: Running a Wool Mill with Karen Hostetler with Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Mountain Meadow Wool is a woman-owned Wyoming textile mill that is dedicated to supporting local ranchers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-35
Oct 08, 2018•30 min
33: Natural Dyes with Kathy Hattori of Botanical Colors
Kathy Hattori is the founder of Botanical Colors, which supplies artisans and the textile industry with beautiful, high quality natural dyes. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-33
Sep 24, 2018•36 min
32: Participatory Weaving with Kacie Lyn Martinez
This week on the podcast, I’m talking to Kacie Lyn Martinez, participatory fiber artist, facilitator, and systems designer. Kacie uses fiber arts to create spaces, tools, and technologies that honor our humanity. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-32
Sep 17, 2018•38 min
31: Handheld Looms with Angela Laswell Smith of Purl and Loop
Angela Laswell Smith is the founder and Creative Director of Purl and Loop, which specializes in making products to help weavers, including their wildly popular Swatch Maker 3-in-1. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-31
Sep 10, 2018•29 min
30: Indigenous Textile Traditions with the Tixinda Dreamweavers
Patrice Perillie and Amada Sanchez Cruz are from the Tixinda Dreamweavers, a cooperative of dyers, spinners, and weavers located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-30
Sep 03, 2018•23 min
29: Weaving Through Loss with Jen Arron
Jen Arron is an artist in Toronto who weaves intriguing sculptural pieces using a wide range of materials and her frame loom. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-29
Aug 27, 2018•38 min
28: Contextualizing Textiles with LaChaun Moore
LaChaun Moore is an artist and weaver, an entrepreneur, a farmer, and also our new Weave Podcast producer! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-28
Aug 20, 2018•21 min
27: Irene Schmoller of Cotton Clouds
Irene Schmoller is the founder of Cotton Clouds, a cotton weaving yarn and spinning business which has been beloved by our fiber community for decades. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-27
Aug 13, 2018•34 min
26: Maine Dye and Textiles
Claudia Raessler is co-founder of Maine Dye and Textiles, a dyehouse in Saco, Maine. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-26
Aug 06, 2018•47 min
25: Weaving as Art and Craft with Val Echavarria
This week on the podcast, I’m thrilled to be talking to Val Echavarria. Val is an artist, weaver, and graphic designer in Pasadena, California. She creates a stunning range of woven art pieces, and also makes zipper pouches, tote bags, and other pieces from handwoven and hand-dyed materials. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-25
Jul 30, 2018•35 min
24: Weaving Guilds with Jayne Flanagan
This week we're talking weaving guilds with Jayne Flanagan! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-24
Jul 23, 2018•30 min
23: Rigid Heddle Weaving with Liz Gipson of Yarnworker
Liz Gipson is the founder of Yarnworker, a fantastic resource and teaching community for rigid heddle weavers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-23
Jul 16, 2018•39 min
22: Susan Horton, Editor of Handwoven Magazine
Susan Horton, the Editor of Handwoven Magazine, shares her journey to becoming Editor, her tips for submitting projects to Handwoven, what a week-in-the-life of working on Handwoven is like, and so much more. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-22
Jul 09, 2018•31 min
21: Lisa Roos and Shogo Hirata of Intertradition
Shogo Hirata and Lisa Roos are the two artists behind the cross-cultural weaving collaboration Intertradition. With Intertradition, they take inspiration from the Swedish weaving and pattern tradition and filter this through a Japanese traditional weaving technique, creating what they call intertraditional fabric. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-21
Jul 02, 2018•41 min
20: Linda Thalmann
Linda Thalmann is the founder of Paperphine, making gorgeous paper yarns for weavers and other textile artists. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-20
Jun 11, 2018•26 min
19: Maryanne Moodie
Maryanne Moodie is a fiber artist and weaver in Melbourne, Australia, and author of the book On the Loom: A Modern Weaver's Guide. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-19
Jun 04, 2018•33 min
18: Paula Stebbins Becker
Paula Stebbins Becker is both an accomplished industrial textile designer and a woven textile artist who exhibits her work in group shows and galleries nationally. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-18
May 28, 2018•52 min
17: Cynthia Alberto
Cynthia is Filipina, an artist, weaver, weaving activist, teacher, and founder/director of the Brooklyn-based weaving studio, Weaving Hand. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-17
May 21, 2018•29 min
16: Jessica Wilson
Jessica Wilson is a weaver in Houston, Texas and founder of the Houston Fiberfolk Meetup. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-16
May 14, 2018•29 min
15: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Fiber artist and weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers, a Chicana mother and a father of Huichol descent. In our conversation, we discuss Consuelo's dreams of becoming an artist as a child working in the fields, why she insisted on making a space for weaving as art in academia, her series of works commemorating the people who lose their lives crossing the highways near the border between Mexico and California, and so much more. Show Notes: www.gistyarn...
May 07, 2018•49 min
14: Bhakti Ziek
Bhakti Ziek is a well known artist, weaver, and teacher who currently lives and works in Vermont. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-14
Apr 30, 2018•40 min
13: Kathrin Weber
Kathrin Weber is the the owner and artist behind the beloved hand-dyed warp yarn company Blazing Shuttles. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-13
Apr 16, 2018•33 min
12: Lindsey Campbell
Lindsey Campbell is the fiber artist and weaver extraordinaire behind Hello Hydrangea. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/epsiode-12
Apr 09, 2018•28 min
11: Rebecca Mezoff
Rebecca Mezoff is a contemporary tapestry weaver who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. In our conversation we discussed Rebecca's experience as an artist in residence at a National Park, her process of communicating with clients on custom tapestries, how she approaches her work as a weaving teacher, and so much more. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-11
Apr 02, 2018•37 min
10: Treenway Silks
Treenway Silks is widely known in the weaving community as a source for exquisite silk yarns and fiber hand-dyed every color of the rainbow. On this episode I talk to Susan Du Bois today about the story behind her business, where her love of color comes from, tips she has for weaving with silk, and so much more. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-10
Mar 26, 2018•35 min
9: Sarah Neubert
Sarah Neubert is a fiber artist who lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is also the founder and facilitator of The Weaving Kind. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-9
Mar 19, 2018•36 min
8: Nikita Sheth
Nikita Sheth is a weaver based in Sydney, Australia, who creates stunning weavings from recycled saris that she collects from elderly Indian women in her community. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-8
Mar 12, 2018•24 min
7: Avery Williamson
Avery Williamson is an artist and weaver who explores the history of black Americans, specifically women, in personal and institutional archives. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-7
Mar 05, 2018•35 min
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