Weave

This week on the podcast Sarah is talking to Mariah Gaar, a weaver in Missouri, and also a GIST Yarn Ambassador, which means that she regularly works with our yarn and shares the projects she created with our community. Mariah has designed a number of beautiful projects for our blog and has more lovely ones up her sleeve that you can expect in the coming months. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episod...

This week on the podcast LaChaun is speaking with Casey Newman an environmental educator , natural dye cultivator and co-owner and operator of Cedar Dell Forrest Farm. A “forest farm” that aims to maintain the health and integrity of the natural ecosystem while sustainably raising animals and growing food on the non-forested portion of the property. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-80

This week on the podcast, Sarah is talking to Margaret Russell, a weaver of almost 40 years, about her Preservation Wraps project, which supports the conservation of watchlisted breeds of British Sheep. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-79

This week on the podcast LaChaun is speaking with Aviva Leigh an experienced natural dyer and weaver of contemporary woven and stitched textiles living in Aylsham , a ‘cittaslow’ town in Norfolk, England. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-78

This week on the podcast Sarah is talking to Natalie Novak, a tapestry weaver in Portland Oregon and the founder of Combed Thunder. Natalie draws from ancient and contemporary weaving techniques to explore color, mythology, folklore, and the (super) natural world. Sarah was lucky to have the opportunity to take an in-person tapestry weaving class with Natalie almost two years ago, at the Weaving K...

This week on the podcast LaChaun is talking about her progress growing naturally colored cotton and indigo suffruticosa in Low Country South Carolina. She also introduces a new segment that will incorporate listeners in her quest to dig deeper into the world of weaving and textiles! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-76

This week on the podcast Sarah is talking with Emily Winter, the co-founder of The Weaving Mill, an artist-run industrial weaving studio in Chicago. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-75

This week on the podcast, LaChaun is talking with a close friend and former schoolmate Miriam Vegara a Brooklyn Born Mexican American textile artist and educator. In their conversation, they talk about her recent residency in Sweden as well as her ancestral connection to textile making and processing. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-74

This week on the podcast, Sarah is thrilled to welcome Liz Gipson back on! Liz is a well known and beloved weaver, author, the founder of Yarnworker.com, and rigid heddle teacher extraordinaire. I first had her on the podcast about a year ago, and after that conversation we got to scheming about a collaboration a Weaver's PlayBox that is filled with yarn, project inspiration, and helpful tips crea...

This week on the podcast, LaChaun is talking with Linda LaBelle a teacher, entrepreneur, author, photographer and; career fiber artist specializing in natural dyeing and weaving. In their conversation, we talk about Linda’s dye garden as well as her many trips across the world to learn, teach and gather dye materials to share with the natural fiber community. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-7...

This week on the podcast Sarah is talking to Ally Rousseau. Ally is a Fibre Artist and Designer based out of Montréal, Québec. She is a tapestry weaver who has created close to 200 custom pieces for people all over the world, using her signature style of bold blocks and squares of colors. She also teaches weaving, and we loved collaborating with Ally on a blog post last year sharing her weaving st...

This week on the podcast, LaChaun is talking with Stephanie L. Ondo. Stephanie is a sustainable natural fiber artist who creates wool felt sculptures, handspun yarns, and one-of-a-kind botanically dyed textiles. She is the founder of SLO fiber studio a project named after her married initials S-L-O which can be read as "slow" - a hopeful word in a world that often moves too fast. Show Notes: www.g...

Felicia Lo Wong is a designer and entrepreneur from Vancouver, Canada who started her company Sweet Georgia Yarns in 2005. Sweet Georgia Yarns is a hand-dyed yarn company that makes stunning gorgeous and deeply saturated colors of yarn and fiber for knitters, spinners, and weavers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-69

This week on the podcast LaChaun is talking with Jane Hansen, a small scale sustainable wool fiber farmer living in Northern Wisconsin. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-68

Jacqueline James is a weaver in the UK specializing in the hand-dyed and handwoven rugs. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-67

This week on the podcast LaChaun is speaking with Tamara White of Wing & A Prayer Farm. Tamara is a sustainable wool fiber farmer, homesteader, and natural dye cultivator. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-66

Jennifer Moore is an experienced weaver, teacher, and author, specializing in all things doubleweave. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-65

Sharon Donnan works with small farmers and hand weavers in Louisiana to revive Acadian Brown Cotton. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-64

Deb Brandon is a textile artist, writer, math professor, and brain injury survivor. She is also a board member of WARP Weave a Real Peace, and most recently is the author of Threads Around the World, a collection of essays and photographs sharing textile traditions from communities around the world. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-63

Liz Spencer is a natural dyer who advocates for slow fashion and sustainable textiles. Her growing experience includes farming organic natural dyes in between rows of a family heritage orange grove in southern California, and community-centric projects on the sidewalks of Brooklyn, New York. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-62

Stephen Hamilton is an artist and arts educator living and working in Boston. Stephen’s work incorporates both Western and African techniques, blending figurative painting and drawing with resist dyeing, weaving, and woodcarving. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-61

Sara Hajgato is a Hungarian natural dyer and small scale grower. She collaborates with a rural eco-community to grow dye plants and run small-scale experiments, in which she re-purposes vintage garments with natural dyes. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-60

Cameron Taylor-Brown has been working in the worlds of fiber, education, and commerce since the 1970’s. She is curating an exhibit for the Craft in America Center in LA called Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers, which will feature work by ten contemporary American artists and designers working with textiles who are strongly influenced by Anni Albers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/epis...

This week on the podcast, LaChaun is talking with Kelli, a natural dyer, dye grower, insect admirer, and owner of Bedhead Fiber. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-58

Jillian Moreno is a spinner, knitter, weaver and the author of the book Yarnitecture, all about spinning exactly the yarn you want. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-57