Always a work in progress.
places to study and play
- Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
- Art-Is-You Mixed Media Art Retreats
- Asheville BookWorks, Asheville, NC
- Cloth Fiber Workshop, Asheville, NC
- Focus on Book Arts, Forest Grove, Oregon
- John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC. I have gone here in several seasons and loved it each time.
- Pam Patrie Studios, Oregon. My tapestry mentor and fairy godmother. She hosts tapestry retreats at her little cabin on the coast that are wonderful and affordable.
- Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Transformative. For serious artists.
- Pocosin Arts Center, Columbia, NC, near the Outer Banks. A lovely place.
- Textile Arts Resource Guide, online tutorials and information
surface design and textiles
- Barbara Schneider
- Barbara Yates Beasley
- Cas Holmes and also Cas Holmes
- Hand/Eye Magazine
- India Flint
- Jude Hill – Spirit Cloth
- Kirsty Wallace
- Mary Corbet’s Needle ‘N Thread – great resource for embroidery stitches. How-to videos for many individual stitches.
- The Textile Blog
- Turkey Red Journal (dyeing)
- The Woolly Way of Ireland
book and paper arts and artists
- Alvenh Channe – binding tutorials
- Art Farm
- Artist’s Books 3.0 on Ning
- Barnacle Goose Paperworks
- Big Jump Press
- Calligraphy and Artist Book Gallery
- Carol Cole
- Carriage House Paper
- Catherine Nash’s Resources for Papermaking
- Daniel Essig
- Eden Workshops
- Emily Marks Designs & Services
- Gin’s Place
- Hand Papermaking
- Ice Resin – ooh, fun stuff!
- Jill Berry
- Midnight Musings – Ginger Burrell
- My Handbound Books
- Scriptorium – Beautiful fonts
- Smith Eliot
- Southeast Guild of Bookworkers
- Talas – Book conservation supplies
- TJ Bookarts
- Vamp & Tramp Booksellers
- Volcano Arts
- Wishi Washi Studio
- Yonno Press, my homegirl, Susanne
tapestry
- Áine Dunne
- American Tapestry Alliance
- Archie Brennan and Susan Martin Maffei
- Barbara Heller
- Desert Song Studio
- Elizabeth Buckley
- Frances Crowe
- J. Meetze Studio/Common Threads
- Janet Austin
- Jeanne Bates
- Kathe Todd-Hooker
- Tapestry Line Unlimited – Line Dufour
- Margo MacDonald
- Molly Elkind
- Pam Patrie Studios – Pam is my fairy godmother.
- Pat Williams
- Rebecca Mezoff
- Ros Hornbuckle
- Ruth Manning
- Sarah Swett I saw Jane’s Picnic III at Convergence one summer. They just about had to cart me away on a stretcher.
- Selfies in Tapestry
- Tapestry @ Sand Studio
- Tapestry Tour
- Tapestry Weavers South
- Tricia Goldberg
- Tommye Scanlin
- Weird Wefts
other weaving resources
- Fiber Art Now
- Handweavers Guild of America’s home on the Web.
- Interweave Press Publisher of Handwoven and other magazines and books on fiber arts.
- The Textile Blog: Inspirational Magazine
- Tim’s Treadle Reducer – handy if you need to figure out how to weave a complicated treadling on a loom with fewer treadles.
- Treenway Silks – I order silk yarns for tapestry weaving from Treenway. Beautiful shimmering color.
- Weaving Today
- Weavolution
- WeaveZine – wonderful articles and FREE!
- The Yarn Circle – the fiber folks from John C. Campbell Folk School operate this amazing store in Murphy, North Carolina.
basketry
- Frank’s Cane and Rush Supply
- H.H. Perkins – Where I get my natural bulrush.
- Matt Tommey
- Natural Fibers Group – Almost enough to make me want to move down east again.
- North Carolina Basketmakers Association
- Shannon Weber – I don’t know if this is the right “category” for Shannon – all I know is that I love her art and wanted to link to it.
online yarn stores
greensboro, north carolina art supply resources
- John Neal, Bookseller Calligraphy and bookbinding supplies
- Gate City Yarns. Basketry, knitting, spinning and weaving supplies, workshops and classes
