About Me

I live in Chicago, Illinois, and own The Chicago Weaving School, where I teach the art and craft of handweaving to wonderful people.

In the space of time between teaching and running the business, I make personal work.

About the Work

Handweaving’s technology--the loom’s systematic interlacement of warp and weft to create a woven web, promises regularity. By threading the loom’s warp ends, and treadling the weft passes just so, a flawlessly repeating pattern is possible. The loom can do this.

The hitch in this process is the weaver; the human hand that falters, the eye that misses an error, the mind that races, then stutters, the heart that wearies, then rallies.

Weaving is a cumulative, linear process; one weft pass builds on the next, and the resulting cloth reveals a history of its own construction.

I weave cloth that intersects the monotonous heartbeat of pattern with the skips and mutations of growth. Once off the loom, I want the cloth to do what cloth naturally does: wrinkle, gather, bunch, drape, soften, absorb, harden. It is stretched, folded, stitched and pleated. It hangs, it wraps, it poufs. It breathes--with no other agenda than to carry the energy of its formation.

Contact

I can be reached through the school’s website:

https://www.chicagoweavingschool.com/