Fibre Mart – April 11th, 2026
Promoting Spinning, Weaving, Felting and Dyeing since 1953
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Posted July 15, 2024
The Woolhouse loom had been set up with the guild’s fan reed and a demo warp. Members came in and were shown how the system worked and got the opportunity to try it out themselves. Many wonderful samples (also including scarves and a top that had been done on other looms, but with this same reed) were on display.
Building a home, a home that is constructed of lint and thread, of intimacy and affection. To build a home that is constantly, intentionally being taken apart, only to be rebuilt.
Kate Ritchie is a Calgary-based textile artist whose practice consists of unweaving and reweaving, focusing on the transformative possibility of radical care, and the infinite ability for objects and people to come apart and back together again, reveling in the hems, selvedges, and seams.
