“Color in Deflected Doubleweave” with Natalie Drummond Deflected Doubleweave is a fascinating weave structure that yields surprises particularly with  color, fiber, and finishing results. I’ll take you on my journey with mixing hand dyed yarns with 4  and 8 shaft drafts including how I design in the reed. Those wonky selvedges can be a  challenge!…

“Common and Uncommon Tied Unit Weaves” with Marcy Petrini We will discuss what makes tied unit weaves unique, and how they are different than unit weaves. With one warp and two wefts, tied unit weaves are supplementary structures; we will also discuss how they are different than other supplementary weaves and why exchanging one for…

A Weaver’s Journey: from Stick Shelters to Jacquard Weaving with Mary Burns          Join fiber artist Mary Burns for a presentation covering her lifelong fiber journey from childhood stick shelters to rug weaving, from wall art to natural dyeing and eco-printing, and jacquard weaving. Mary will discuss various styles of weaving that she has done, including…

My Year with Rust Belt Fibershed & One Year One Outfit  One year, one outfit (OYOO)  is a cohort-based project that responds to consumerism and the damaging effects of fast fashion. Participants in the OYOO project reside in the Rust Belt Fibershed region (within 250 miles of Cleveland) and create an outfit through a soil-to-soil…

“Frida Hansen as Inspiration” with Robbie LaFleur Robbie LaFleur, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been following a thread of Scandinavian textiles since she attended a traditional handcraft school in Norway in 1977. She was awarded the Gold Medal in Weaving from the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in 2006. Robbie coordinates the Weavers Guild of Minnesota Scandinavian Weavers…

“Finish and Exhibit that Piece!” with Jenny Schu As fiber artists we can have a tendency to enjoy the process of creating a piece but not be prepared to finish or display it. We might start to solve these problems by considering what to do at the beginning stages or during the creation of your…

“Building Woven Landscapes” with Maris Van Vlack With Building Woven Landscapes, interdisciplinary textile artist Maris Van Vlack will provide insight into her artistic practice of creating woven and knitted landscape tapestries using floor looms and jacquard looms. Van Vlack is an interdisciplinary artist who uses weaving to build images of architectural spaces that explore themes…

“Sewing Your Handmade Fabrics, Part 1” with Liz Spear Liz Spear presents the 30+ year evolution of a weaving/sewing business  with roots in a Midwestern upbringing, years making pottery full-time, and  a final move to Western North Carolina. Her handwoven fabrics are  cut-n-sewn into classic shirts, jackets and coats, often supplemented with her Nuno-felt and…

“Couture Passementerie Through the Eyes of a Fiber Artist” with Robyn Spady  From Chanel and Balenciaga to the House of Worth and Ralph Lauren, passementerie has been a way to elevate a garment from something ordinary to something extraordinary. What is passementerie?  It’s a French term without an English equivalent. Passementerie encompasses a multitude of techniques…