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Meet 13 California Designers Reimagining Textile Creation
Meet the 13 designers who participated in the spring 2024 Borrowed from the Soil Design Exhibition, February 29 – March 4 in Point Reyes Station, California.
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Borrowed from the Soil: A Farm-to-Closet Design Exhibition
Fibershed’s ‘Borrowed from the Soil’ Design Exhibition explored a future vision where the way we produce and use one of our most basic human necessities — clothing — can support the longevity and health of our local ecosystems and communities.
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Weaving Lineage in Diaspora
Sari Monroy Solís is a Mayan Kaqchikel and Xicana weaver, teacher, dyer, herbalist-in-training, and Fibershed’s Learning Center Workshop Coordinator, with a decades-long career as an immigration attorney. Sari revitalizes ancestral fiber arts in California and internationally – a journey and practice that started with a family loom and renewing her own connections to craft in her homelands of Guatemala and Mexico.
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How 6 California designers are taking a soil-to-soil approach to textile creation
The six designers featured in this article are incredibly mindful in their approach to textile design, all while elevating what it means to use local, land-based materials.
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JG SWITZER Shares the Magic and Magnificence of Wool
For Jessica, the journey started when she moved to Sebastopol and acquired six sheep (three Wensleydales and three Romneys). Jessica adored the animals’ beauty and tranquility, yet each spring, she found herself utterly perplexed with an abundance of wool she did not know what to do with. She would disperse it on her land for compost and mulch, but since knitting or weaving was outside her wheelhouse, Jessica desired to find a better way to process her small-batch wool. She wanted to find a solution not only for herself, but for many small farms in her community. Jessica’s inspiration led her to finding Fibershed, which eventually brought her to discover Luna.
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Grange Home Returns the Hand to the Made
Beth Miles is the brains and hands behind her Grange Home line, which is a culmination of and departure from her prior life in apparel design.
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Herderin Begins with the Body and Soul
“What if garment consideration began with asking: Where would you like to be held? Where would you like to have some more support? Feel some weight around your shoulders, or something snug around your low back or abdomen? Could a garment play a role in healing you? Could it feel like wearing a parent’s clothes? What can clothing do for us, emotionally?”
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A Love of Design: Kosa Arts
Written by Marie Hoff and photographed by Hubbard Jones “Some say the creative life is in ideas, some say it is in doing… It is the love of something, having […]
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Fibershed’s Community: ‘What Fibershed Means to Me’
The Fibershed community responds to the question “What does Fibershed mean to you?”
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