Podcast appearances and mentions of linda ligon

In 1974, two young industrial designers in the Netherlands started a company making spinning wheels. Beginning in a family member's chicken coop, they built a modern wheel featuring an upright castle-style format, a then-uncommon bobbin-lead drive system, and a drive wheel without spokes. Jan Louët Feisser and Clemens Claessen named their company Louët and began building the now-iconic S10 spinning wheel. The company soon moved out of the chicken coop and brought on other employees. By 1982, they began making looms, from expandable table looms to countermarche and eventually dobby looms. The founders, who loved the design aspect more than management, brought on Theo Vervoorn to handle the daily logistics. Across the Atlantic in Canada, a family of Dutch immigrants had started a farm as part of the “back to the land” movement. The sheep raised on their farm produced wool that needed to be processed, so Trudy van Stralen learned to spin, weave, and dye. She began selling Louët spinning wheels and soon became not only one of the company's largest dealers but also an adviser on the fiber arts market. The van Stralen company founded Louët North America, with David van Stralen joining in 1994 and developing a special focus in equipment mechanics and maintenance. Over 50 years, countless aspects of Louët's business have changed, and their practices have kept up. The modern manufacturing techniques that Louët pioneered in 1974 have continued to evolve, with 3D modeling, computer-guided milling, and contemporary materials finding their place in the company's products alongside the high-quality wood that exemplified even the earliest wheels. Customers seek out answers online and in videos at all hours, and Louët strives to reply to customer questions in 24 hours. From small improvements to existing equipment to new products large (dobby looms) and small (inkle looms and a brand-new ballwinder), the company keeps design as a central focus. Some aspects of the business continue unchanged as the company has passed to a second generation. Theo Vervoorn's son, Paul, joined the company in 2012 and purchased it in 2023. David van Stralen joined Louët's main business as director of operations in 2022, though he can still be found replying to customer support tickets on weekends and tuning up equipment at festivals. As they plan for their next 50 years, Louët's customer support team continues to help half a century's worth of customers, and the design team has a list of products and innovations they're working on. In this spotlight episode, discover what sustains the company and how they approach spinning and weaving. Links Louët.nl (https://www.louet.nl/) Louët's 50th anniversary celebrations (https://b2b.louet.nl/en/50-years-louet) Louët dealers (https://b2b.louet.nl/en/dealers) can be found in 45 countries. (If you have a question ourside your dealer's business hours, you may find your answer at their Support portal. (https://b2b.louet.nl/en/support) Linda Ligon's article “The Louet s10 Spinning Wheel Is 50 Years Young” shares her experiences collaborating with Louët over a half century. This episode is brought to you by: Louët Team Louët (https://www.louet.nl/) is proud to be part of a multi-generational family business. We have been producing high quality handcraft products for 50 years. We take pride in our workmanship, innovative products, and customer service. We look forward to helping you with your next Louët products or to help introduce you to our fine products for the first time.

Life lessons are where you find them. Peggy Orenstein found them in her quest to build a sweater from scratch. When I say that Peggy created a sweater from scratch, I mean wrestling a sheep to the ground and relieving it of its wool. Carding said wool by hand while Zooming with her father, who sometimes knew who she was. Spinning that lovely fluff, with all the typical push-pull-stop-go of a beginning spinner. Dyeing the yarn with colors from her backyard and beyond. After that, knitting the sweater was a breeze, sort of. (And despite the title of her book, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater, it's definitely not the world's ugliest.) But there were more lessons to be taken from this year-long odyssey. Lessons about fast fashion, regenerative agriculture, ancient goddesses, a planet at risk. The list goes on. The handmade thread, metaphorical or physical, ties together our human history, not neatly but with complicated and important entanglements. Unraveling is not a how-to book. If you know much about any of the steps in the process of turning wool into wardrobe, you will smile or sometimes wince at the author's fearless approach. But so much to think about! She gives us so much to think about! Visit the Long Thread Podcast website (https://longthreadmedia.com/podcast). Links Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/unraveling-peggy-orenstein?variant=40967065075746) "The Revolutionary Power of a Skein of Yarn" (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/sunday/knitting-fabric-michelle-obama.html) , New York Times, January 27, 2023 peggyorenstein.com (https://www.peggyorenstein.com/) This episode is brought to you by: You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed.

In 2010, Lynda Teller Pete was living in Denver with her husband Belvin, working full-time in a demanding government job in the Department of Labor, living the life on a modern urban Indian, doing a little weaving in her spare time. Then she pivoted. Quit the job and sat down at her loom and made the commitment to return to her roots. With her older sister, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Lynda began teaching weaving classes and producing award-winning tapestries. In 2017, the two of them wrote Spider Woman's Children: Navajo Weavers Today. They followed this with How to Weave a Navajo Rug and Other Lessons from Spider Woman, both published by Thrums Books/Schiffer Publications. And at the same time, Lynda collaborated on another book for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and she curated exhibits and lectured across the country. She and Barbara were featured in a segment of the PBS series Craft in America. She keeps a full teaching schedule, including classes for Navajos only as well as more culturally focused classes for non-indigenous students. In 2022 she was elected to the board position for Equity and Inclusion by the prestigious Textile Society of America, and in the same year she was recipient of a Luce Foundation fellowship for Indigenous Knowledge, which will result in the translation of How to Weave a Navajo Rug into her native language. Her list of accomplishments and responsibilities goes on and on. And yet most any night, late into the night, you would find Lynda at her loom, rhythmically beating the pattern wefts into place in yet another tapestry. For after all, night is when the spider does its work. Visit the Long Thread Podcast website (https://longthreadmedia.com/podcast). This episode is brought to you by: You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas's website (https://navajorugweavers.com) How to Weave a Navajo Rug (https://schifferbooks.com/products/how-to-weavenavajo-rug) by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas Spider Woman's Children (https://schifferbooks.com/products/spider-womans-children) by Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas The Tellers on Craft in America (https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/lynda-teller-pete) Textile Society of America (https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/) Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowships 2022 (https://www.firstnations.org/2022-luce-indigenous-knowledge-fellows/)

In Meg Swansen's world, knitting is so much more than knit and purl. It links music, mathematics, deep history, and world-wide communities. It is a platform for creativity, invention, and technical mastery. Music, you say? That's how Meg proceeds merrily along a pattern round of several hundred stitches. She sings the repeat. Or at least chants it. And those long, long pattern rounds comprise her favorite kind of knitting: color-stranded Fair Isle designs. The interplay of color and motif and deep tradition are of endless interest to her. Mathematics are integral to the craft, too, in Meg's world. Her mother's famous EPS, Elizabeth's Percentage System, has empowered generations of knitters to devise their own patterns to suit their own gauges and their own body measurements. Now Meg's son Cully has taken the concept to a new level, riffing off the famous Baby Surprise Jacket with new formulae to suit almost infinite sizes, shapes, and styles. It seems to be a family thing. Impeccable technique matters to Meg, not just for its own sake but for the stories it tells of knitters in far-flung countries and cultures. She's introduced the knitting world to the traditions of Latvia, Armenia, Estonia, Iceland, the Scandinavian countries, the list goes on and on. And it's not just the motifs and styles of these cultures, but the ways of working, the ways of tending to details, that have been refined over many generations, even centuries. Meg has added her own tricks, too, and takes great pleasure in all the difference a simple slip of a needle-tip makes in her signature increase. From her cozy, iconic Red Schoolhouse in the Wisconsin woods, Meg reflects on the hundreds of individual knitters who have come to the annual knitting camp that her mother started in 1974. So much sharing, learning, and teaching have come from these gatherings, and Meg is careful to credit the individuals that have made special contributions. While the camp happens only in the summer, it provides the spirit for a vast community that connects through her semi-annual newsletters, occasional book launches, teaching forays, and social media posts. So much more than knit and purl. This episode is brought to you by: Treenway Silks is where weavers, spinners, knitters and stitchers find the silk they love. Select from the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn, and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). You'll discover a rainbow of colors, thoughtfully hand-dyed in Colorado. Love natural? Treenway's array of wild silks provide choices beyond white. If you love silk, you'll love Treenway Silks where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Links Schoolhouse Press (https://www.schoolhousepress.com/) "The Long Thread" article featuring Meg Swansen can be found in PieceWork Spring 2023 (https://shop.longthreadmedia.com/products/piecework-spring-2023)

More than spinning, weaving, stitching, or any of the other crafts she's written and published about, Linda Ligon is fascinated by the people who make traditional textiles. From Peruvian spinners to Miao embroiderers to Navajo weavers, the people who make cloth the way their ancestors did have a special interest for her. Many of the people who know Linda Ligon's work don't know her by name (which is just fine with her). Linda founded Interweave in 1975, and it went on to become a craft juggernaut. After selling the company, she founded Thrums Books, which published highly illustrated, immersive books about traditional textiles around the world. She cofounded Long Thread Media in 2019, bringing three of her original publications (Spin Off, Handwoven, and PieceWork) home. Bringing together textiles, stories, words, and images is Linda's life work—but she never loses her fascination for one person in particular: the reader. Links Thrums Books (https://www.schiffercraft.com/search?type=product&q=thrums+product_type:Craft) Long Thread Media (https://longthreadmedia.com/)

Marcia Young started her craft publishing journey by accident, with a newsletter and website for her local quilt guild. With small children at home, she fit in writing around the edges, until almost overnight she saw an opportunity for a new magazine devoted to fiber arts. Fiber Art Now and the Fiber Art Network began at Marcia's kitchen table, and she published it quarterly for nearly a decade. Eventually Marcia was ready for a new challenge, and she realized that Fiber Art Now was ready for a new direction, too. The publication joined with Quiltfolk, a quarterly magazine devoted to the rich community of American quilting. With her first publishing love in a good new home, Marcia found herself exploring a new medium of her own: book publishing. Schiffer Publishing is an independent publishing company whose craft list includes weaving and fiber arts titles (including Thrums Books, a group of titles about international textile traditions founded by Linda Ligon). As the Imprint Lead for Schiffer Craft, Marcia's charges include a range of traditional arts such as leather, clay, and paper. Schiffer's goal, Marcia says, is to be a valued partner in the lives of makers. This episode is brought to you by: Handweaving.net (https://handweaving.net/) is the comprehensive weaving website with more than 75,000 historic and modern weaving drafts, documents, and powerful digital tools that put creativity in your hands. Now it's simple to design, color, update, and save your drafts. Our mission is to preserve the rich heritage of hand weaving and pass it down to you. Visit Handweaving.net and sign up for a subscription today! You'll find the largest variety of silk spinning fibers, silk yarn and silk threads & ribbons at TreenwaySilks.com (https://www.treenwaysilks.com/). Choose from a rainbow of hand-dyed colors. Love natural? Their array of wild silk and silk-blends provide choices beyond white. Treenway Silks—where superior quality and customer service are guaranteed. Links Schiffer Craft (https://www.schiffercraft.com/) In Search of Wild Silk (https://www.schiffercraft.com/products/in-search-of-wild-silk-exploring-a-village-industry-in-the-jungles-of-india) by Karen Selk Deep Color (https://schifferbooks.com/products/deep-color-the-shades-that-shape-our-souls) by Keith Recker Create Naturally (https://www.schiffercraft.com/products/create-naturally-go-outside-and-rediscover-nature-with-15-makers) by Marcia Young Thrums Books (https://www.schiffercraft.com/search?type=product&q=thrums+product_type:Craft) Fiber Art Now (https://www.fiberartnow.net/) "Spinning Paper Thread" (https://spinoffmagazine.com/spinning-paper-thread-in-ghana/) by Mary Hark explores papermaking in Ghana. "Redefining the Paper Towel" (https://handwovenmagazine.com/notes-from-the-fell-redefining-the-paper-towel/) by Tom Knisely approaches paper and weaving from a new angle.

In this episode of Reflections from my Art Table, I talk about my love of textiles and fibers and all of the different ways I have explored them within my life and my art practice. I share my favorite materials and books on textiles and fibers that I love. Patreon page to support this podcast: https://www.patreon.com/emmafreeman. Etsy Shops I buy supplies from: -I get many of my Japanese sashiko and Kogin embroidery threads here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/kimonomomo -I get beautiful handmade papers from around the world from this shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/tornedgepaper -Hand dyed recycled rope and other interesting fibers: https://www.etsy.com/shop/UnfetteredCo Textile and Fiber Books I talk about: -Rug Money:How a Group of Maya Women Changed Their Lives through Art and Innovation by Mary Anne Wise and Cheryl Conway-Daly -Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives by Susan Schaefer Davis -The Hand Stitched Surface by Lynn Krawczyk -Layered Cloth: The Art of Fabric Manipulation by Ann Small -Three Dimensional Embroidery by Janet Edmonds -Poetic Cloth by Hannah Lamb -Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future by Rangina Hamidi and Mart Littrell -A Textile Travelers Guide to Peru and Bolivia by Cynthia LeCount Samake -Sheila Hicks / Lifelines -The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch by Susan Brandeis -Joomchi & Beyond by Jiyoung Chung -Natural Processes in Textile Art by Alice Fox -Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art by Claire Wellesley Smith -Bojagi and Beyond II by Chunghie Lee -Threads Around the World From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe -Kigami and Kami-ito: Japanese Handmade Paper and Paper Thread by Hiroko Karuno -Stamp, Stencil, Paint by Anna Joyce -Hand Dyed by Anna Joyce -Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything from potatoes to linoleum by Lotta Jansdotter -Mending Matters by Katrina Rodabaugh -Every Thread a Story: Traditional Chinese Artisans of Guizhou Province by Karen Elting Brock, Linda Ligon and Wang Jun -The Secret Language of Miao Embroidery by Zeng Li -Anni Albers On Weaving Emma Freeman is a queer mixed media artist and teaching artist. She works with fibers, textiles, upcycled and repurposed materials, nature, printmaking, mark making, bookmaking, collage and more in her art practice. Her process is experimental, tactile, meditative and playful. Art is a healing space for Emma to process and release her thoughts and emotions. She is highly sensitive, sober, contemplative, silly, and a deep lover of animals and trees. She lives in a small town in Wisconsin in the United States with her two rescue beagles. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/emma-freeman-art/message

The first issue of Handwoven, which appeared in 1979, included an article by Debbie Redding, "Your Weaving Teacher." Your Weaving Teacher became a regular column full of practical advice until Deborah Chandler (as she was then known) left her writing and teaching pursuits to enter the Peace Corps. She found her way back to weaving, of course. In this conversation with Linda Ligon, she shares her best advice for any weaver—the tips and tricks that make weaving more accessible and enjoyable.

Thank you for listening to God’s message as given by Bro. Jason Mull. We hope this blesses you and furthers your understanding of the word. John 14:6 tells us that Jesus is the only way to the Father. I pray that you make that decision today before it’s everlasting too late. God bless you. Special Guests-Jason Ligon and Linda Ligon, Piano

Thank you for listening to God’s message as given by Bro. Jason Mull. We hope this blesses you and furthers your understanding of the word. John 14:6 tells us that Jesus is the only way to the Father. I pray that you make that decision today before it’s everlasting too late. God bless you. Special Music by: Jason, Amie, and Linda Ligon

Thank you for listening to God’s message as given by Bro. Jason Mull. We hope this blesses you and furthers your understanding of the word. John 14:6 tells us that Jesus is the only way to the Father. I pray that you make that decision today before it’s everlasting too late. God bless you. Special Music by Jason & Amie Ligon and Mrs. Linda Ligon on piano.

My first completed project for this year of knitting with my hand spun yarn was a garter stitch hat made from a cabled yarn from a Jacob fleece.  This was a true start to finish project, I bought the fleece raw, processed it, spun it and then knit the hat, The inspiration for the hat came from the book HomeSpun HandKnit by Linda Ligon.  The pattern was the garter stitch cap. The second knitting project started in Jan 2016 was the Painted Sky Cowl provided free by KnittingFever.  I am using a worsted spun 2 ply yarn I also made from the Jacob.   My blog can be found here. Contact me with any comments (don't just talk to the podcast I can't hear you!) here or on Ravelry as Yarnspinnerstales.    

This episode we have the pleasure of chatting with Linda Ligon, the founder of Interweave Press, which publishes a host of magazines including Handwoven and Spin-Off, as well as many excellent books on weaving and the fiber arts. We pay tribute to Peter Collingwood. And … Continue reading →