PPWG Artist Galleries
Robin enjoys weaving with floor looms, and often works with multiple colors and yarns in the warp. She began tablet and inkle weaving over thirty years ago, and started working on shaft looms in 2013.
Phoenix Feathers 2. Cotton, Tencel and Rayon boucle scarf with plum Zephyr wool/silk blend weft and glass beads. Woven for the theme "Phoenix Rising from the Fibers" for the 2023 Intermountain Weavers Conference Celebration of Fiber show.
A close-up of the beaded fringe. The beads are threaded onto the warp strands with a steel crochet hook prior to twisting the fringes.
Phoenix Feathers 1. Cotton, Tencel, and rayon boucle warp and black Tencel weft. This piece won both the People's Choice Award and Best embodiement of the theme of Phoenix Rising from the Fibers at the 2023 Intermountain Weavers Conference.
Phoenix feathers 2 on the loom, showing the reversal of the pattern on the two sides of the scarf.
The warp for the Phoenix Feathers scarves, on the warping board. This warp combined many color changes to create a smooth gradation from orange-yellow, through red-purple.Hand-painted rayon boucle was added between "feather" sections for texture and color interest.
Turned overshot and huck lace shawl in alpaca/silk blend with bamboo and hand-dyed Tencel supplementary warp. This piece won People's Choice at the 2018 Colorado Weavers Day, and Best in Show for the Rocky Mountain Weavers Guild 2018 Fashion Show.
Close-up of overshot patterning and lace on shawl
Fiesta napkins and placemats in crackle weave. This project was published in the November / December 2022 issue of Handwoven magazine.
Placemats in crackle weave.
This boundweave tote was woven based on a pattern from Yarn Barn of Kansas, using wool weft yarn on a cotton warp. I altered the shaping of the bag to create notches for boxed corners while the fabric was on the loom, so that the densely woven fabric would not need to be cut during the sewing process. The top edging is a 12 strand kumihimo braid, and the strap was woven on an inkle loom, both with the same wool used as weft in the bag.
Here are the woven notches after wet finishing and blocking the fabric.
Here is a side view of the tote, showing the side seam and boxed corner.
Multiple hand painted warps were combined to weave this yardage, in a combined twill, basket weave, and invented structure.
Part of the finished yardage. The colors shifted over the length because much of the warp was hand painted.
Mug Rugs in Krokbragd, a 3 shaft Finnish boundweave. The set on the right is as they were woven, prior to finishing.
The edges were finished with a Damascus edge.
A Bergman tied weave based on a draft from Weaving Innovations from the Bateman Collection by Robyn Spady, et al. This is a 3-tied weave with 4 pattern blocks.
Bergman tied weave based on Bateman, with Zuri performing quality control.
Purse woven in 4 color doubleweave with inkle woven straps. Pearl cotton warp, with cotton and rayon wefts.
Bucket tote in twill handwoven with 12 colors of pearl cotton yarn, accompanied by cotton canvas and quilt fabrics.
Tablet woven broad diagonal pattern, with movement of cards to create the moving diagonal turquoise
16/2 cotton scarf with 10/2 pearl cotton and Tencel supplementary warp
German twill weave inspried by the colors of scrubs, woven for the PPWG president's challenge during the pandemic.
Rayon chenille and wool scarf, with novelty yarn accent in warp