Established in 2019, the Experimental Weaving Residency is a program that hosts weavers in our research lab for up to three months with the goal of creating resources and techniques to share with a broader community. Each Fall/Winter, we will open a call for residencies for coming year.
Poppy DeltaDawn
upcoming in Spring 2025
Kathryn Walters
2023 (fall)
topics explored: actuating over-twisted cellulose yarns. Bio-inspired design.
Elizabeth Meiklejohn
2023 (spring)
topics explored: electromagnetics, cloth, partial weft structures, light scattering, soft sensing, lattice structures, collaboration with Irene Posch
- Design Bookkeeping
- View the Residency Catalog Online or Order a Physical Copy.
- Making Magnetic Reverberations
- Announcing the 2023 Experimental Weavers in Residence
- 2023 Call for Applications
Etta Sandry
2022
topics explored: sampling as method, waffles, self pleating structures, felting, sampling club.
Sandra Wirtanen
2019
topics explored: dry electrodes, elastics, integrated electronics, routing wires through cloth.