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Weaving

Category: <span>Weaving</span>

Weave your own textiles (or learn about types of looms and weaving) for beginners and beyond. Explore basketry, woven wall art for hanging, tapestry, fabric weaving, macraweaving, bead weaving and wire weaving. Both loom and hand weaving – even finger weaving – have endless creative possibilities on table, backstrap, floor – even DIY – looms!

Featured Weavers

Mariana Murabito weavings

Spotlight: Mariana Murabito, Textile Artist

In her journey from web and graphic design to weaving, Mariana Murabito discovered the joy of creating images by hand with warp and weft on the island of Mallorca. She...

Woven macrame wall hanging

Spotlight: Chantel Conlon, Mixed Fiber Macramé Artist

Mixed fiber macramé artist Chantel Conlon is most prolific when her creativity is tied up in knots. Using traditional techniques combined with patterns of her own design along with unconventional...

Deb Brandon

Spotlight: Deb Brandon, Textile Artist

When mathematics professor, writer and brain injury survivor Deb Brandon found weaving, she found her calling. A lover of traditional textiles, Deb incorporates those design elements into her own work....

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A woven wall hanging in progress by Allyson Rousseau

Spotlight: Allyson Rousseau, Fiber Artist

Allyson Rousseau creates colorful and unique fiber art primarily using her own style of weaving. Inspired by the world around her, she often works in a series to see what…
Rachel Breuklander Original Macrame Landscape

Spotlight: Rachel Breuklander, Macramé Artist

Macramé artist Rachel Breuklander creates her nature-inspired fiber art with a belief that everyone has a seed of creativity that can blossom when nurtured. For Rachel, her medium is macramé,…
Woven macrame wall hanging

Spotlight: Chantel Conlon, Mixed Fiber Macramé Artist

Mixed fiber macramé artist Chantel Conlon is most prolific when her creativity is tied up in knots. Using traditional techniques combined with patterns of her own design along with unconventional…
Urban Rhythym

Spotlight: Dianne Koppisch Hricko, Fiber Artist

Delighted by surprises, lifelong artist Dianne Koppisch Hricko finds the fluidity and endless possibilities of applying dyes to silk opens more than enough creative doors to inspire her next fiber…
Weaving by Barbara O'Steen

Spotlight Barbara O’Steen: Fiber Artist

Barbara O'Steen's art career has spanned many years and many obstacles that would have kept a lesser woman down. Through gender barriers, supporting a young family as a widow and…
Brithers Be . . .

Spotlight: Jilli Blackwood, Textile Artist

Jilli Blackwood's story offers a glimpse into her determination to make a successful go of life as a textile artist. From her art school work in embroidery and weaving, Jilli…
Tapestry by Lynne Curran

Spotlight: Lynne Curran, Tapestry Weaver

From her Tuscany studio, Lynne Curran weaves tapestries that mix traditional techniques with her own stylized imagery. She passes along her knowledge and passion to students who both live in…
Autumn Splendor series, scarves

Spotlight: Anne Niles Davenport, Fiber Artist

Anne Niles Davenport took up weaving on a dare and immediately felt a connection. She has never repeated a piece, so every time you look at her work you will…
Mariana Murabito weavings

Spotlight: Mariana Murabito, Textile Artist

In her journey from web and graphic design to weaving, Mariana Murabito discovered the joy of creating images by hand with warp and weft on the island of Mallorca. She…

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