Weaving and Textile Instructors

Australia

Australia - BB Yarn Supply
Ursula Schmid teaches colour theory and gives workshops on weaving textures, linen, summer & winter, using a warping mill and other handweaving courses.

Australia - Romida Fibre & Spinning Supplies
Cheryl Hutchinson teaches spinning on drop spindles and wheels, both privately and to larger groups.

New Zealand - The Christchurch Tapestry Workshop
Marilyn Rea-Menzies teaches beginner and intermediate tapestry and elements of design.

Canada

BC - The Stitchhiker
Birthe Achtner teaches Scandinavian knitting and weaving.

U.S.

CA - Rug & Yarn Hut
Karen Brayton-McFall offers classes for beginners, and more experienced weavers, tapestry, handspinning, corsetmaking, Orenburg lace knitting, crochet, braiding and many other fiber art techniques. Guest teachers and mentors are also featured.

FL - Tingomaria Homestead
Susan Keller gives demonstrations and classes on weaving and spinning with a wheel or a drop spindle.

FL - Too Warped Weavers
Martha and Esther teach both weaving and beadwork.

IA - DeSigns4U
Sandi Carstensen teaches how to make Buggy Wheel rugs.

IN - The Weavers Loft
Barb Gallagher has over 20 years experience teaching individuals and doing workshops in rug weaving and randome warp dyeing.

Brenda Kopmeyer-Kaspar
is an award-winning fiber artist. She teaches a wide range of textile techniques, dyeing, felting, papermaking.

KS - The Wool Winders
Sharon Rooney teaches weaving on frame and 4 harness looms, and beginner spinning on wheels and spindles.

ME - Atelier 9
Donald Talbot teaches introductory and intermediate classes on 18th and 19th century looms, spinning on antique wheels and various dye techniques.

MI - Flax Craft
Virginia Handy teaches weaving, flax spinning and dyeing, specializing in leno-lace weaving.

MN - Traudi Bestler
Traudi Bestler gives workshops on beginner and advanced weaving, tapestry, kumihimo braiding, dyeing and warp painting.

MS - Earthart Collective (sm)
Sandra Nickeson teaches workshops on creativity enhancement, surface design and mixed media art applications, including visual journeying.

MT - Elkhorn Mountains Weaving Studio
Joanne Hall gives workshops in Swedish weaving, drawloom weaving, tapestry, rug mkaing and many other weave structures.

MT - JK Fiber Works
Jan Nordwick has extensive spinning and knitting training and experience.

NC - Lamplight Creations
Johnetta Heil offers classes in triangle loom weaving, circular weaving, Inkle and other small looms.

NC - Spinner's Ridge
Elaine Ross raises angora goats, and teaches beginner spinning, drafting techniques and going beyond the basics.

NC - Woven Dreams
Bonnie Pulver teaches beginner weaving and silk painting.

NE - Strings
Tonya Leach-Trickel can teach beginner weaving, spinning on wheels or drop spindles, and dyeing basics.

NJ - Winding Way Weaver
Barbara Flexner teaches weaving, spinning, wool processing and using natural dyes.

NY - The Art Studio & Mia...
Mia Barkan Clarke is a working artist and practicing art therapist, specializing in fiber arts for adults suffering from mental illness.

OK - Cherokee Baskets
Peggy Brennan is a Cherokee Tribal member and specializes in Native American basketry.

OR - By the Bay Creations / The Bag Lady
Elaine Almquist teaches knitting, carding, spinning, locker hooking and dyeing.

OR - Patrie Studios
Pam Patrie specializes in teaching tapesty and rug weaving. She has produced works for many public and private buildings.

PA - From Hands That Weave
Irene Smith teaches basic beginner weaving, tapestry, crochet, quilting, sewing and machine embroidery.

PA - Ramona Lord
Ramona Lord teaches beginner weaving on a frame-loom, boundweave, drafting and design as well as other types of weaving.

Puerto Rico - Artesanias Marypili
Maria del Pilar Batista teaches weaving with palm leaves.

TN - Larkspin Fiberworks
Charlotte Iverson teaches basic handspinning on both the wheel and the drop spindle and is willing to travel to workshops.

VA - Cecelia Cassidy
Cecelia Cassady gives beginner and intermediate weaving and spinning classes.