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Weave Podcast

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Jan 30, 2018

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Weave podcast is launching Monday February 5th!

Released:

Jan 30, 2018

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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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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 by Weave
36 min listen
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 by Weave
24 min listen
2: Omar Chavez: Natural Dyeing and Tapestry Weaving with Omar Chavez. Omar is a master weaver and natural dyer from Teotitlan Del Valle, in Oaxaca, Mexico. I met Omar last May when I was lucky to get to spend a week learning tapestry weaving from Omar and his parent ... by Weave
29 min listen
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 by Weave
52 min listen
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 by Weave
29 min listen
5: Rachel Snack: Rachel Snack is the designer and weaver behind Weaver House Co, and the Creative Director at Harrisville Designs. On this episode we talk about her journey to weaving, a day-in-the-life working at Harrisville Designs, a weaving cooperative she worked ... by Weave
31 min listen
3: Tien Chiu: Weaving Color and Complex Patterns with Tien Chiu. Tien Chiu is an award-winning textile artist and writer who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her weaving has appeared on the cover of Handwoven Magazine, her handwoven wedding dress was part of an ex ... by Weave
32 min listen
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 piec ... by Weave
35 min listen
1: Meghan Bogden Shimek: Meghan Bogden Shimek is a weaver, fiber artist, and tarot reader living and working in Oakland, California. She creates stunning large-scale wall hangings and sculptural objects from wool roving. Meghan’s work has been exhibited throughout the US and ... by Weave
45 min listen
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 by Weave
29 min listen
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 by Weave
39 min listen
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 fi ... by Weave
49 min listen
4: Mirrix Looms: I had so much fun talking the mother-daughter team behind Mirrix Looms, Claudia Chase and Elena Zuyok. Claudia founded Mirrix Looms in 1996 when she wanted a portable loom that she could take to weave with at her children’s sports games. 22 years lat ... by Weave
36 min listen
Weave Podcast: Weave podcast is launching Monday February 5th! by Weave
2 min listen
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 by Weave
34 min listen
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 by Weave
26 min listen
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 by Weave
31 min listen
6: Indigo Handloom: Smita is the founder of Indigo Handloom, which works with over 500 weavers in rural India to produce beautiful, handwoven textiles using ancient techniques. In this episode, we talk about how Smita went from working as a journalist to founding Indig ... by Weave
41 min listen
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 by Weave
47 min listen
12: Lindsey Campbell: Lindsey Campbell is the fiber artist and weaver extraordinaire behind Hello Hydrangea. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/epsiode-12 by Weave
28 min listen
39: Raising Alpacas on a Fiber Farm with Kacie Lynn: Kacie Lynn is a textile artist and the founder of Fiber Farm, where she is raising alpacas on a small homestead in the Tennessee foothills. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-39 by Weave
35 min listen
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 by Weave
33 min listen
44: Cultivating a Creative Weaving Practice with Andrea Carpenter: Andrea Carpenter, a weaver in Southern California, talks about how she cultivates a creative weaving practice to support her through challenging times, and how feminism influences her work. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-44 by Weave
38 min listen
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 by Weave
33 min listen
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 by Weave
38 min listen
40: Jacquard Weaving with Cathryn Amidei: Cathryn Amidei is an expert Jacquard weaver and teacher, and the instructor at The Jacquard Center. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode40 by Weave
32 min listen
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 c ... by Weave
35 min listen
24: Weaving Guilds with Jayne Flanagan: This week we're talking weaving guilds with Jayne Flanagan! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-24 by Weave
30 min listen
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 by Weave
35 min listen
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 by Weave
40 min listen

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147: It's Not About Perfection But Expression with adé Oh: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with adé Oh (they/themme/àjé) an afro surrealist, animist, and multimedia healing artist. Their creative fire is nourished by earth-based textile crafts, sound arts, experimental and abstract visual arts, nature ... by Weave
61 min listen
146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and ... by Weave
53 min listen
145: Weaving Skies with Kesiena Onosigho: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with one of our artists in residence Kesiena Onosigho. Kesiena's thought-provoking mixed-media collages and installations are informed by her lived experiences, curiosity, and the historic influence on arts & cr ... by Weave
66 min listen
Episode 144: New Farm and Fiber Beginnings with Michelle Brooks and LaChaun Moore: In this week's conversation, LaChaun is switching roles to be interviewed by Michelle Brooks of The Stitchering Shop. You may remember Michelle from episode 110 where she talked about her practice of creating custom textile art pieces using a var ... by Weave
56 min listen
WEAVE: The Artist in Residence Program: Our WEAVE Artist in Residency program is a 12-week long remote residency that aims to support weavers and fiber enthusiasts who engage in community-based fiber practices. Each participant will receive a $1,500.00 cash stipend to use with no restricti ... by Weave
10 min listen
143: Making a Life with Melanie Falick: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with author and maker Melanie Falick. Melanie traveled across continents to meet quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, all to uncover truths that have been ... by Weave
50 min listen
142: Traditions in Cloth with Melvenea Hodges: In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Melvenea Hodges. Melvenea is a Fiber Artist residing in South Bend, Indiana. She was born and raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan where she began learning about fiber arts through experimenting with hair brai ... by Weave
45 min listen
141:Teaching and Designing Tapestry Weaving with Tommye Scanlin: In this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Tommye Scanlin. Tommye is a well-known tapestry weaver, tapestry teacher, and the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, as well as her newest book, Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond. In ... by Weave
36 min listen
140: Exploring Tapestry Weaving with Rebecca Mezoff: On this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Rebecca Mezoff. We are really thrilled to welcome Rebecca Mezoff back onto the podcast. Rebecca is a contemporary tapestry weaver in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a tapestry weaving teacher, both in-person and ... by Weave
36 min listen
139: Rhythm and Texture with Multimedia Artist and Musician Lea Thomas: On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Lea Thomas. Born in Hawaii and based in Brooklyn, Lea Thomas is a multimedia artist with a focus on music and weaving. Her woven work is centered around hand-looming natural fibers that she dyes with botani ... by Weave
34 min listen
138: Introducing Twofold with Gist Yarn's Christine Jablonski: On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Christine Jablonski, the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave. Over the course of ... by Weave
20 min listen
137: Entangling Craft and Tech with Shanel Wu: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Shanel Wu. Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech. Shanel works with smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, and hardware hackin ... by Weave
44 min listen
136: Heirloom Naturally Colored Cotton in Shades of Pink with Maud Lerayer of Behind The Hill: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Maud Lerayer. Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton ... by Weave
37 min listen
135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs: In this week’s episode LaChaun speaks with Bryana Bibbs. Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chi ... by Weave
30 min listen
134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez: In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Carolina Jimenez a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poure ... by Weave
29 min listen
133: Regenerative Storytelling with Amy DuFault: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Amy Dufault. Amy is a sustainable textile industry writer. She works as the sustainability and communications Director for Botanical Colors as well as the Communications Lead for TS Designs. Amy also ... by Weave
58 min listen
132: A New Look For Gist Yarn with Maggie Putnam: We have a special episode for you today, a conversation between myself, LaChaun, and Maggie Putnam, that will be a peek behind the scenes at GIST Yarn and what we’ve been up to. Maggie Putnam Studio is a one-woman creative office that crafts refined ... by Weave
30 min listen
131: Letters from Our Community: Our team put together a really special episode for you to ring out this year, sharing some of our favorite customer stories that came into our email inbox this year. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-131 by Weave
36 min listen
130: Regenerative Fashion with Lydia Wendt of California Cloth Foundry: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Lydia Wendt, the Founder and Design Director of the California Cloth Foundry. Originally from New York, Lydia trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology and worked with some of America's top fashio ... by Weave
44 min listen
129: Weaving Sustainability And Social Justice with Sarah Gotowka of Luna Fiber Studio: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Sarah Gotowka the founder and director of Luna Fiber Studio, A textile studio specializing in weaving and natural dyes, rooted in sustainability and social justice. Sarah is a Korean adoptee and also ... by Weave
44 min listen
Gist Yarns First Open Call For Pattern Designers: Hello, I hope all is well. Before I get into this week’s episode I would like to start out by expressing my excitement and gratitude for the recent election results. I’m glad we voted and I’m excited about the changes that are to come! While we ... by Weave
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A Message On Voting in the 2020 Election with Sarah and LaChaun: In this week’s episode, LaChaun and Sarah give a short personal account of why they feel it is important to vote in the 2020 Electoral Campaign. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-vote2020 by Weave
9 min listen
128: Emanating From The Textures with Torrey Beckham: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking to Torrey Beckham. Torrey is a Texas-born Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who weaves, uses plants, and many other creative mediums as outlets of expression. Torrey’s palette, texture choices, and su ... by Weave
31 min listen
127: Historic Wild Indigo on Johns Island South Carolina with Leigh Magar: In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Indigo Farmer, Textile Artist & Dressmaker Leigh Magar. Leigh’s textile design studio Madame Magar is inspired by art, nature, folkways, and history. Her studio embraces a seed to stitch design philosophy tha ... by Weave
34 min listen
126: Poetic Political Quilt Making with Mathematician Chawne Kimber: In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Chawne Kimber an African-American mathematician and quilter, known for expressing her political activism in her quilts. In Chawne’s quilts, she interprets traditional forms in an improvisational style ... by Weave
35 min listen
125: Weaving and Tufting with Jessie Mordine Young: In this week's episode, LaChaun is speaking with Jessie Mordine Young. Jessie is a textile curator, teacher of traditional textile techniques, and maker living in New York City. She is an MA candidate in the History of Decorative Arts, Design History ... by Weave
31 min listen
124: Accountability In Fashion with Lauren B. Fay of The New Fashion Initiative: This week on the podcast LaChaun is speaking with Lauren B. Fay the founder and executive director of the New Fashion Initiative. The New Fashion Initiative is a foundation creating interdisciplinary education and communications initiatives to promot ... by Weave
48 min listen
123: Cultivating a Contemporary Weaving Community with Gather Textiles: In this week’s episode, Sarah is speaking with Angela Kelly and Kim McCollum the founders of Gather Textiles. Gather is a yarn shop and textile studio in Edmonton Alberta. Their aim is to bring people together to exchange ideas, learn from one anothe ... by Weave
36 min listen
122: Indigo Growing and Natural Dyeing in Central Baltimore With Kenya Miles: In this week’s episode, I’m really excited to speak with Kenya Miles. Kenya is a textile artist, farmer, and the alchemist behind the Traveling Miles Studio. Kenya has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in natural textiles which she has applied to t ... by Weave
75 min listen
121: Natural Fibers Sculpture and Gendered Iconography With Sydni Gause: In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Sydni Gause, an interdisciplinary artist and Adjunct Professor in Sculpture at Alfred University. Sydni works with an array of materials that she uses in her sculpture, installation, and fiber-based practice. ... by Weave
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