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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....

More Weaving

Spiral Towers in a group by Annetta Kraayeveld

Spotlight: Annetta Kraayeveld, Contemporary Basketmaker

Annetta Kraayeveld made her first basket and found her passion. She is a self-taught contemporary basketmaker who creates vessels from painted watercolor paper. Drawn to ancient pottery and complex twill patterns, she loves…
Je Me Souviens by CLaire Renaut

Spotlight: CLaire Renaut, Textile Artist

CLaire Renaut studied fashion at Esmod Paris and became a fashion and textile designer. Looking for a more creative outlet, she went back to school and received a Master's in…
Aquatic Terrestrial fiber art by Shanna Robinson

Spotlight: Shanna Robinson, Fiber Sculptor

Meet Shanna Robinson who has been making things for as long as she can remember. She uses found objects from her environment to create complex fiber sculptures using a variety…
Verdant weaving by Susan Iverson

Spotlight: Susan Iverson, Textile Artist

Susan Iverson is inspired by architecture and landscape, creating intricate tapestries that capture a moment of time. She works on one piece at a time and in a series. She…
Felted raccoon making smores by Erin Carlson

Spotlight: Erin Carlson, Weaver, Felter and Gardener

Try to keep up with Erin Carlson. She has a lovely garden, weaves, felts and, well, hasn't met a craft she hasn't wanted to try! All while keeping up with…
White Lies basket by Carol Ventura

Spotlight: Carol Ventura, Artist and Author

Carol Ventura discovered tapestry crochet while in the Peace Corps in Guatemala. Inspired by those textiles, she started tapestry crocheting bags with her own motifs. Taking a bead crochet class…
Well Being series by Line Dufour

Spotlight: Line Dufour, Textile Artist and Tapestry Weaver

Line Dufour saw a weaving loom in a display at a craft store and somehow knew that the universe would align to make it an important part in her life.…
Rising/Falling tapestry by Mary Lane

Spotlight: Mary Lane, Tapestry Weaver

Mary Lane saw an exhibit of contemporary tapestries almost fifty years ago and knew she wanted to learn to weave. She studied French tapestry weaving techniques, developed a practice as…
Furrowed art by Tracy Krumm

Spotlight: Tracy Krumm, Fiber Artist

Tracy Krumm explores the relationship of textile structures to scientific principles to create intricate works of art. Using a variety of fibers and materials, her pieces are a nod to…

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