Weavecast

The bright and shiny new year is often a time for making resolutions.  Is one of yours to finally get serious about selling your weaving?  If so, I’ve got a treat for you.  Sarah Pilgrim, a talented and successful Montana weaver is our guest this episode and one of the main topics of our conversion is how to sell handwoven items, online and elsewhere.  After the interview I’ll come back with this episode’s audio essay: Fear of Finishing!

* Sarah Pilgrim’s website

* Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Musical Guest

Josephine with “Unfinished Life”

We’ve got two great interviews for you this episode: Jacey Boggs, the leader of the new art-yarn movement talks about creating wild and yet structurally sound yarns, and then John Acord of Flatwater Electronics describes his new hardware interface that  breathes new life into electronically obsolete computer dobby looms.

* Insubordiknit

* Flatwater Electronics

 

This episode our guest is Claudia Chase, the founder and owner of Mirrix Looms.  We talk about tapestry and bead weaving, and her journey with Mirrix.  We also discuss politics, what it’s like to hear color, and other fascinating topics.  After the interview, Claudia features in a special holiday-themed outtake.

* Mirrix Looms

* Craft a Guild

* Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat

* Weaving for Beginners

* Ask a Question

Musical Guests

* “Thanksgiving” by Steve Stellavato

* “I Heart Thanksgiving” by Robert Lund

Polyester is cool, find out why.  We chat with Holly Brackmann, weaver and surface designer, about devoré and transfer printing with disperse dyes on man-made fibers.

* Holly Brackmann’s website

* The Surface Designer’s Handbook by Holly Brackmann

* My New Favorite Yarn: Polyester? blog post

* Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland

Musical Guest

John Gilliat, “Nylon Heat”

Nancy Smith Kilkenny interviews Kathie Roig, a weaver specializing in painted warp imagery and draw loom weaving.  I talk about the summer hiatus and when a weaver should use “the good stuff.” WeaveCast summer challenge.

* Kathie Roig’s website

* Nancy Smith Kilkenny’s blog post about Kathie Roig’s workshop

Interview and audio editing

Nancy Smith Kilkenny

This episode we talk with Margarita Benitez about OSLoom, an open-source jacquard loom initiative.  She’s looking to make jacquard weaving affordable by creating open-source plans that you can use to build your own loom!

* OSLoom website

* Kickstarter for OS Loom

* Daryl Lancaster

* Andean Pebble Weave by Laverne Waddington

This week we chat with James Koehler, a tapestry artist who does amazing things with depth and color.  We talk about his work, spirituality and inspiration, and his upcoming gallery show that will be launched at Convergence.

* James Koehler’s website

* Syne on Facebook

This episode we chat with talented artist and teacher, Linda Hendrickson about tablet weaving and ply-split braiding, two off-loom ways to interlace threads in interesting patterns.  And with ply-split braiding you can even create three-dimensional vessels.

* 40th Birthday Party Details

* Linda Hendrickson’s Website

* Royalwood Basketry (source of Danish Cord)

* Errol Pires

* The Techniques of Ply-split Braiding by Peter Collingwood

* YouTube trailer of Garlic Basket Video

Audio Editing

Jessica Madsen

This episode we chat with Rodrick Owen about kumihimo and Peruvian braids.  If you’re not familiar with kumihimo, it’s a Japanese style of braiding that creates beautiful and strong braids.  The most common form of kumihimo is woven on a marudai, essentially a small round table with a hole in the center.

* Rodrick Owen’s website

* Braids: 250 Patterns From Japan, Peru & Beyond by Rodrick Owen

* Kumihimo: Japanese Braiding, video featuring Rodrick Owen

* Sling Braiding of the Andes by Adele Cahlander

* Finger Weaving: Indian Braiding by Alta Turner

Audio editing

Ruth Temple

This episode Nancy Smith Kilkenny brings us a wonderful story of Mary Louise Van Dyke, and the paraments she wove for the Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, OH.  We also hear from Alision Ricker, the sacristan charged with conserving and preserving those paraments.

* Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, Ohio

* Theo Moorman technique

* Flickr pictures of the paraments (Nancy Smith Kilkenny’s photostream)

Musical Guests

* “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” by Karmyn Tyler

* “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” by Two Harps

Interview and Audio Editing

Nancy Smith Kilkenny