Professional Weaver Podcast
Professional Weaver Podcast

Professional Weaver Podcast

Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

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Through our interviews and discussions with weavers, manufacturers, show promoters, and patrons of the fiber arts we hope to build depth, transparency, and connection within the weaving community. We will also be taking your weaving questions to ask the experts.

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51 : John Paul Morabito
JUL 18, 2021
51 : John Paul Morabito

This week we are speaking with John Paul Morabito of Chicago, Illinois.

John Paul is a transdisciplinary weaver who engages the medium of tapestry reimagined in the ditigial age. Their work outputs woven forms, moving images, and relational actions to imagine queer grace. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including but not limited to the Zhejiang (zhuh-zhong) Art Museum in China, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects in New York and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas. They also have work in collections like the Textile Resource Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have presented papers at the College Art Association Conference and the Textile Society of America Symposium, published essays with Art China, the China Academy of Art Textile Reader 2, and the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice. Morabito holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they currently serve on the faculty as an Assistant Professor, Adjunct of Fiber and Material Studies.

We hope you enjoy our conversation with John Paul as cover how they discovered weaving early in their life, queer identity and creation through textiles, the future of weaving and more.

Find John Paul Online : Website | Instagram

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Sponsored by : Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

Read full show notes and resources at : https://professionalweaversociety.com/podcast

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Music by Rawhead The Wreckloose : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/
Rawhead the Wreckloose's new album 'Cold Bill' : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/album/cold-bill

Intro Music : Guesthouse

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63 MIN
50 : Erin Riley on becoming a weaver, establishing her artistic voice, how she fits into the weaving community and more!
JUL 11, 2021
50 : Erin Riley on becoming a weaver, establishing her artistic voice, how she fits into the weaving community and more!
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71 MIN
49 : Tommye Scanlin on how she came to be a weaving teacher, what inspires her tapestries, and the process of writing her books.
JUL 4, 2021
49 : Tommye Scanlin on how she came to be a weaving teacher, what inspires her tapestries, and the process of writing her books.

This week we are talking with tapestry Weaver, Tommye Scanlin, who resides in the Southern Appalachian region.

Tommye is an artist who observes and responds to her surroundings for inspiration. Her primary artistic medium is handwoven tapestry, an ancient method of working with fibers to create images. As she seeks images and ideas to interpret into tapestry she experiences her surroundings as closely as She can. Photographs, sketches, paintings, and writings all are part of the research she puts into her work.

She has been living in the southern Appalachian mountains for most of her life and her surroundings are filled with the natural forms of woods, streams, and fields. Her eyes are frequently drawn to the myriad details of the landscape and many of her tapestries are based on aspects of those details, simplified and enlarged in a weaving.

Tommye has also written two books on the topic of creating tapestry weavings: “The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver” and her newest book “Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence.” Her passion for teaching others is infectious, and she is always learning new things to pass along to others. It is inspiring and we hope that you snag her books to read up on her awesome tapestry weavings.

Find Tommye Online : Website | Instagram | Buy The Nature of Things | Buy Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond

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Join the Discord : https://professionalweaversociety.org/join-the-discord/

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Sponsored by : Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

Read full show notes and resources at : https://professionalweaversociety.com/podcast

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Support the Podcast : Become A Patron (Shop on Amazon)

Music by Rawhead The Wreckloose : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/
Rawhead the Wreckloose's new album 'Cold Bill' : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/album/cold-bill

Intro Music : Guesthouse

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68 MIN
48 : Tien Chiu on her about her growth into weaving, enriching the weaving community, how mathematics and technology influence her work.
JUN 13, 2021
48 : Tien Chiu on her about her growth into weaving, enriching the weaving community, how mathematics and technology influence her work.

This week we are speaking with Tien Chiu.

Tien is a textile artist, a teacher, and a writer. She has achieved many awards and achievements with her weaving work, including such honors as her handwoven wedding dress as part of the permanent collection at the American Textile History Museum and her Kodachrome jacket being featured on the cover of Handwoven magazine. In her studio she is primarily a weaver, dyer, and couture seamstress, producing artistic garments, accessories and wall hangings.

She has written many articles for Handwoven and Complex Weavers Journal. She has also written a fabulous book, titled Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making and Selling Artisan Work. This book was a huge help for me when I started weaving as a full time career and is definitely recommended!

Her blog is an amazing resource in design inspiration, exploration, and problem solving complex weave structures. I have been following her work and her blog since I graduated from college, finding endless motivation through her writings.

We hope you enjoy our conversation as we talk with her about her growth into weaving, how she wants to help enrich the weaving community, and some insight on how mathematics and technology influence her work as a weaver and teacher.

Find Tien Online : Website | Master Your Craft Book

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Sponsored by : Comfortcloth Weaving LLC

Read full show notes and resources at : https://professionalweaversociety.com/podcast

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Sponsor the Podcast : Become A Sponsor

Support the Podcast : Become A Patron (Shop on Amazon)

Music by Rawhead The Wreckloose : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/
Rawhead the Wreckloose's new album 'Cold Bill' : https://rawheadthewreckloose.bandcamp.com/album/cold-bill

Intro Music : Guesthouse

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120 MIN
47 : Sean Dougall & Andrew Paulson on growing and developing their design practice, the challenges of weaving with metal, what inspires them to keep exploring, and more.
MAY 30, 2021
47 : Sean Dougall & Andrew Paulson on growing and developing their design practice, the challenges of weaving with metal, what inspires them to keep exploring, and more.
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70 MIN