MILIEU

MODERN   WEAVES

While the other girls in her rural Oklahoma town were hitting the mall and experimenting with makeup, Stephanie Seal Brown was at home, teaching herself how to weave.

“I was very bookish as a child,” recalls Seal Brown, now forty-two, designer and weaver of an eponymous line of linen trimmings. “I used handcrafts to help pull me out of my head.” Every year, she would teach herself a new craft: sewing,

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