Continuing Textile Traditions: Around the World in 80 Fabrics
Around the World in 80 Fabrics poses the question, ”Can our clothing choices help repair and restore instead of destroy our dwindling natural and cultural resources?” To answer that question, the ATW80F team invites us to join in exploring common and uncommon fiber possibilities and the makers behind them.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Elena Laswick
WARP Board Member Elena Laswick grew up in Tucson, Arizona on a steady diet of mariachi, beans, folklórico, and Navajo rugs, which developed her sense of belonging somewhere between Latin America and the US and is why she is passionate about textiles, indigenous rights, and cultural preservation.
Continuing Textile Traditions: Sustainable Fiber Systems
Over a decade ago, weaver and natural dyer Rebecca Burgess founded Fibershed, a system of regional and regenerative fiber systems that build soil & protect the health of our biosphere. Fibershed has grown into an international movement, and influences every aspect of sustainable textile production, from growing fiber, natural dyeing, local processing and production, and more.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Adrienne Sloane
Adrienne Sloane is a mixed media artist with a focus in fiber techniques. Using iconic imagery, her work is frequently a visceral response to the moral and political landscape of the day.
Continuing Textile Traditions: Acadian Brown Cotton, 250 Years of Louisiana History
This panel discussion features the very successful Acadian Brown Cotton Project, which strives to document, preserve and promote Louisiana’s unique natural brown heirloom cotton.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Maren Beck
WARP Board Member Maren Beck co-founded Above the Fray: Traditional Hill Tribe Art in 2007 in order to document, support, and introduce to the world the incredible traditional textiles arts and cultures of Southeast Asia.
Continuing Textile Traditions: International Folk Art Market
The 18th International Folk Art Market (IFAM) was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the weekend of July 8 – 10, with 164 artisans from 48 countries and thousands of visitors and buyers from far and wide. Many members of WARP participate in IFAM as volunteers at all levels, and our July panel presented information that would-be IFAM participants would benefit from knowing.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Julio Cardona
Julio Cardona was born and raised in eastern Guatemala. After working in government and the corporate world, he joined the staff of Mayan Hands/Association of Weavers United and had his first experience working with a non-profit organization.
WARP 2022 Online Annual Meeting: Tradition, Innovation & Community Stewardship: Evolution of Textile Arts
Community stewardship includes both honoring the past and safeguarding the future. In many textile communities, age-old traditions merge with new innovations. For our 2022 conference, WARP brought together speakers from textile communities around the world to discuss questions artisans face in our ever-changing world.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Kelly Majula Koza
Kelly Majula Koza works with the tessitrici artigianali— the women who maintain the art of traditional handweaving on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia.