Barbara Knupper - Artful Artisan

Barbara Knupper - Artful Artisan

It all started the summer when I was 8 years old. I got a bag of cotton loops and a little red metal frame loom for making potholders. By the end of that summer, I had the “potholder stand” in the neighborhood, the heck with lemonade!

Later in life I discovered there was more to it. I took a weaving course at Northern Illinois University, and saved like crazy to buy a loom. I wove fabric for jackets and ponchos, rugs, tapestries. I sold pieces at art fairs and to interior designers. I taught weaving classes. Then I found the “Webschule Sindelfingen” (a weaving school in the southern German town, Sindelfingen), and spent two years learning what I didn’t know I didn’t know(!) about weaving – technical and practical.

I believe that weaving is NOT rocket science. The technology is ancient; the loom is medieval. But the knowledge – the experience – of what happens when yarns and fabric structures meet is cosmic. So let your senses soak up the colors and textures.

Let weaving be a part of your world, too.

Contact:

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talk2barb@artfulartisan.com
505 850 8439
Mail : 8445 Chamber Court NE #C, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Sales Location: Every weekend Saturday and Sunday at The Market at El Museo, 555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe NM. (September thru May)
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