Register now for WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting!

May 15 – 18, 2024 (Both In-Person and Live Streaming) We’re thrilled to invite you to WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting, where members gather for learning, camaraderie, and networking. This year’s meeting will be held in Golden, Colorado May 15-18th. We have an exciting lineup of speakers from the region’s textile community, and a number of fun networking opportunities including our annual Welcome Circle, live auction and fashion show, international marketplace, and discussion groups. Join us!

Applications Now Open for 2024 Artisan Support Grants

We are delighted to announce that, for 2024, WARP will again award monetary grants to textile artisan communities in need.  The WARP Grants Committee is again offering two grant options: one for Emergency and one for Development. We will be accepting 2024 grant applications from March 4 – March 31, 2024. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Continuing Textile Traditions in Chiapas: Weaving for Justice

April 20, 2024 (Virtual Event) – Weaving for Justice is an all-volunteer organization with its roots in the anthropological fieldwork in the 1980s in Chiapas, Mexico of co-founder, Christine Eber. The speakers will share their perspectives on what it means to stand in solidarity with Maya students and weavers in defense of their right to live with dignity in their home communities and countries.

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Eric Chávez Santiago

April 9 & 10, 2024 (Virtual Event) – MEMBERS ONLY. Eric Chávez Santiago was born in Teotitlan del Valle, he is part of the fourth generation of weavers in his family and has been involved in the textile world since 2002. His professional work experience is in the fields of natural dyes, education programs for artisans and coordination of exhibitions in museums and galleries. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Internet sales then (1994) and now (2024)

Because internet sales are of continual interest, we decided that this month we would bring you a story from the Spring 2023 WARP newsletter about just that. Susan Schaefer Davis has been doing internet sales of rugs from Morocco for just about as long as internet sales have existed, retiring just six years ago. Rikki Quintana is a relative newcomer to the field, starting her sales for “the ‘Stans” a mere ten years ago   INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

The WARP Newsletter – Part II

The December Blog talked about how the WARP newsletter began in the early 1990s. This Blog continues the story of the newsletter and features a bit of the impact it has had over the years.  INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Kat Novak

Kat Novak is a textile artist whose emphasis is on embroidery, handspinning, screen printing, and digital textile printing. Kat is the Associate Director of the TechStyleLAB and Faculty in the School of Fashion at Kent State University.