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Professional Weaver Podcast

Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

Professional Weaver Podcast

A weekly Arts and Visual Arts podcast

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Professional Weaver Podcast

Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

Professional Weaver Podcast

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Professional Weaver Podcast

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Professional Weaver Podcast

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Jul 18th, 2021
This week we are speaking with John Paul Morabito of Chicago, Illinois.John Paul is a transdisciplinary weaver who engages the medium of tapestry reimagined in the ditigial age. Their work outputs woven forms, moving images, and relational actions to imagine queer grace. Their work has been exhibited internationally, ...

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Jul 11th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Erin Riley from Brooklyn, NY.Erin is a tapestry weaver who has dedicated her time and life to creating tapestries that portray different aspects of culture that are either overlooked or are difficult to confront. Since receiving her MFA from the Tyler School of Art she has done many solo...

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Jul 4th, 2021
This week we are talking with tapestry Weaver, Tommye Scanlin, who resides in the Southern Appalachian region.Tommye is an artist who observes and responds to her surroundings for inspiration. Her primary artistic medium is handwoven tapestry, an ancient method of working with fibers to create images. As she seeks ima...

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Jun 13th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Tien Chiu.Tien is a textile artist, a teacher, and a writer. She has achieved many awards and achievements with her weaving work, including such honors as her handwoven wedding dress as part of the permanent collection at the American Textile History Museum and her Kodachrome jacket bein...

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May 30th, 2021
This week we are speaking with the Sean Dougall and Andrew Paulson of the design studio Dougall Paulson, based out of Southern California.As co-founders of the multi-disciplinary art and design studio, they seek beauty through new forms of weaving, furniture, lighting and objects. Using narrative as the thread that bi...

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May 23rd, 2021
This week we are speaking with Jenny Shulkin of OoLaLoom Handwoven from Kingston, NY.OoLaLoom was founded in Savannah, GA in the fall of 2013. Jenny creates microbatch handwoven textiles with handdyed, high quality natural fibers and intricate weaves with a focus in baby wrap and ring sling carriers. She also produces...

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May 16th, 2021
This week we are talking with Margaret Fischer of Greentree Weaving from Yellow Springs, Ohio.Margaret has been fascinated by the craft of handwaving since she first saw a weaving demonstration at a county fair in California when she was just 9 years old. Since then weaving has dominated her life and has brought her g...

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May 9th, 2021
This week we are talking with Margaret Fischer of Greentree Weaving from Yellow Springs, Ohio.Margaret has been fascinated by the craft of handwaving since she first saw a weaving demonstration at a county fair in California when she was just 9 years old. Since then weaving has dominated her life and has brought her g...

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Apr 18th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Daryl Lancaster from New Jersey. Daryl Lancaster, a hand-weaver and fiber artist known for her award-winning hand-woven fabric and garments, has been constructing garments for more than half a century. She gives lectures and workshops to guilds, conferences, and craft centers all over the...

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Apr 11th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Daryl Lancaster from New Jersey. Daryl Lancaster, a hand-weaver and fiber artist known for her award-winning hand-woven fabric and garments, has been constructing garments for more than half a century. She gives lectures and workshops to guilds, conferences, and craft centers all over the...

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Apr 4th, 2021
This week we are talking with Janet Phillips from England. Janet has been designing and weaving for over 40 years after studying Industrial Textile Design at the Scottish College of Textiles, graduating with a First Class Honors Degree. Color and texture are still the foundations that keep her weaving. She dyes most of...

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Mar 28th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Rachel Snack of Weaver House Co from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Weaver House is a project that Rachel created as an intuitive response to returning home after living in Peru, and the continual longing to be at the loom. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber and Material Studies ...

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Mar 21st, 2021
We have been keeping ourselves busy these past couple weeks, working with clients, getting stuff done at the spinning mill, and giving presentations about what we do.This week we wanted to continue the conversation about how we got to where we are and take the opportunity to answer some questions along the way. We are...

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Mar 14th, 2021
Register for the HGA's Careers in Textiles Symposium : http://weavespindye.org/cit/- -This week we are speaking with Crystal Gregory in Kentucky. Crystal Gregory is a sculptor whose work investigates between textile and architecture. If the nature of architecture is fixed and permanent then the opposite would be a te...

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Mar 7th, 2021
This week we are talking with Peggy Osterkamp. Peggy is the author of the New Guide to weaving series, Weaving for Beginners – An Illustrated Guide, and has a prolific blog available to share tips, stories of her travels, and artistic discoveries. She has found great joy in sharing her love of handweaving with students...

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Feb 28th, 2021
This week we are talking with Anne Low from Canada. Anne Low is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses sculpture, installation, textiles and printmaking to explore the relationship of historical contexts of contemporary functional objects and themes that occur, such as the domestic and the decorative. Her works highly fo...

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Feb 21st, 2021
This week we are talking with Lucy MacDonald of Arra Textiles from Scotland. Arra Textiles is named after Lucy’s great grandmother, Arra MacDonald, born and brought up on Orkney, she passed down her love of textiles to Lucy. After graduating with a degree in textile design at university, Lucy worked for a range of diff...

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Feb 14th, 2021
We heard you, and this week we are talking about… ourselves!We were recently asked to give a presentation about what we do and we thought this would be a good opportunity to share it with you. We talk about how we were ramping up our business before the pandemic, how we pivoted, and how we are working on growing our b...

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Jan 31st, 2021
This week we are talking with Bridgette Extraordinaire of Raanu Handwoven from Oregon. Raanu Handwoven is a closed loop production, meaning that Bridgette will reuse material waste created during the production process for additional products. She begins with mill end yarn, which is rescued from large manufacturing hou...

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Jan 24th, 2021
This week we are speaking with Margot Becker from Hudson, New York. Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator.  Margot Handwoven is her line of functional, versatile textiles that playfully explores the intersections of art and craft.  Each one of a kind piece is created by combining traditional patterning and t...

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Jan 17th, 2021
This week we are speaking with William Storms from New York. William is a professional weaver in both the industrial and artistic realm. Through his industrial work he is working with Jacquard looms and designing intricate repeat designs that will be translated for use in the public realm. His artistic work explores ma...

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Jan 10th, 2021
This week, we will be sharing the audio from the first round table, just incase you missed it. This was a great discussion about the value of textiles and we hope that you enjoy our discussion.Next week we will continue with the regular podcast. We have been talking to some great folks and we can’t wait to share them ...

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Jan 3rd, 2021
The Bauhaus, an acclaimed school that embraced the principle of equality among artists and the arts alike, has continued to influence and impact American art long since it’s closure. The weaving workshop in particular was a place of developing aesthetic and supporting innovative teaching methods. Many weavers have “On ...

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Dec 28th, 2020
This week, Eric will be demonstrating rug weaving on his Varpapuu loom. If you have any questions that come up from the demonstration, comment on the post or feel free to send us an email at [email protected] the Video : https://professionalweaversociety.org/podcast/bonus-2/- -Sponsored by : Comfortcloth ...

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Dec 20th, 2020
This week, we have a recorded live video of Tegan demonstrating on her AVL loom and talking about how she got into weaving, the pros and cons of the AVL, and answering questions. If you have any questions that come up from watching the demonstration comment on the post linked below or please feel free to send us an ema...

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