A week in the life of hand-weaver Anna Champeney (Artesanía Textil, Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain). What it´s really like to be a professional handweaver and make your living at a textile craft. Weaving, loom preparation, teaching, natural dyeing, product photography, administration, packaging orders, preparing pricelists. Variety is the spice of life as a maker today! [more...]
Learning to weave on an intensive residential 3-week course at Anna Champeney Estudio Textil in north Spain inspired Kathleen Mc Cormack to start weaving rugs at her home in Ireland. [more...]
DIY weaving – my first attempts
I´m writing this at the end of 2009, looking back over the past 10 years to see how I started to weave – way back in 2000.
I’m looking through my first samples and early work to see just how long it [more...]