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The weave podcast, a project of Gist Yarn, brings together a community of fiber artists and people who love weaving, farmers and mill owners, textile artists and loom manufacturers, to tell the stories of the threads that bind us together.

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Nov 3, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
149: Weaving Wisdom with the Black Sheep Fiber Circle
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Jamila Norman a.k.a (Farmer J), Lauren Soleil, and Keisha Cameron of the Black Sheep Fiber Circle, a maker-style sista' circle and fiber arts gathering dedicated to BIPOC land stewards and agrarian artists ...
Oct 19, 2025 · 57 min
148: Soft Gather, Quiet Flame with Aliana Grace Bailey
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Aliana Grace Bailey, an interdisciplinary fiber artist, designer, and care worker whose practice combines art, healing, and social impact. Through her ongoing project Soft Gather, Aliana crafts immersive he ...
May 22, 2023 · 1 hr
147: It's Not About Perfection But Expression with adé Oh
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with adé Oh (they/themme/àjé) an afro surrealist, animist, and multimedia healing artist. Their creative fire is nourished by earth-based textile crafts, sound arts, experimental and abstract visual arts, nature ...
Dec 23, 2022 · 52 min
146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and ...
Sep 26, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
145: Weaving Skies with Kesiena Onosigho
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with one of our artists in residence Kesiena Onosigho. Kesiena's thought-provoking mixed-media collages and installations are informed by her lived experiences, curiosity, and the historic influence on arts & cr ...
Sep 6, 2022 · 55 min
144: New Farm and Fiber Beginnings with Michelle Brooks and LaChaun Moore
In this week's conversation, LaChaun is switching roles to be interviewed by Michelle Brooks of The Stitchering Shop. You may remember Michelle from episode 110 where she talked about her practice of creating custom textile art pieces using a var ...
Jan 18, 2022 · 9 min
WEAVE: The Artist in Residence Program
Our WEAVE Artist in Residency program is a 12-week long remote residency that aims to support weavers and fiber enthusiasts who engage in community-based fiber practices. Each participant will receive a $1,500.00 cash stipend to use with no restricti ...
Nov 22, 2021 · 50 min
143: Making a Life with Melanie Falick
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with author and maker Melanie Falick. Melanie traveled across continents to meet quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, all to uncover truths that have been ...
Nov 1, 2021 · 45 min
142: Traditions in Cloth with Melvenea Hodges
In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Melvenea Hodges. Melvenea is a Fiber Artist residing in South Bend, Indiana. She was born and raised in Benton Harbor, Michigan where she began learning about fiber arts through experimenting with hair brai ...
Sep 6, 2021 · 36 min
141:Teaching and Designing Tapestry Weaving with Tommye Scanlin
In this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Tommye Scanlin. Tommye is a well-known tapestry weaver, tapestry teacher, and the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver, as well as her newest book, Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond. In ...
Aug 9, 2021 · 35 min
140: Exploring Tapestry Weaving with Rebecca Mezoff
On this week's episode, Sarah speaks with Rebecca Mezoff. We are really thrilled to welcome Rebecca Mezoff back onto the podcast. Rebecca is a contemporary tapestry weaver in Fort Collins, Colorado, and a tapestry weaving teacher, both in-person and ...
Jun 28, 2021 · 33 min
139: Rhythm and Texture with Multimedia Artist and Musician Lea Thomas
On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Lea Thomas. Born in Hawaii and based in Brooklyn, Lea Thomas is a multimedia artist with a focus on music and weaving. Her woven work is centered around hand-looming natural fibers that she dyes with botani ...
Apr 19, 2021 · 20 min
138: Introducing Twofold with Gist Yarn's Christine Jablonski
On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Christine Jablonski, the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave. Over the course of ...
Apr 5, 2021 · 44 min
137: Entangling Craft and Tech with Shanel Wu
In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Shanel Wu. Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech. Shanel works with smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, and hardware hackin ...
Mar 22, 2021 · 36 min
136: Heirloom Naturally Colored Cotton in Shades of Pink with Maud Lerayer of Behind The Hill
In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Maud Lerayer. Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton ...
Mar 8, 2021 · 29 min
135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs
In this week’s episode LaChaun speaks with Bryana Bibbs. Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chi ...
Feb 22, 2021 · 28 min
134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez
In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Carolina Jimenez a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poure ...
Feb 8, 2021 · 58 min
133: Regenerative Storytelling with Amy DuFault
In this week’s episode, LaChaun is speaking with Amy Dufault. Amy is a sustainable textile industry writer. She works as the sustainability and communications Director for Botanical Colors as well as the Communications Lead for TS Designs. Amy also ...
Jan 27, 2021 · 29 min
132: A New Look For Gist Yarn with Maggie Putnam
We have a special episode for you today, a conversation between myself, LaChaun, and Maggie Putnam, that will be a peek behind the scenes at GIST Yarn and what we’ve been up to. Maggie Putnam Studio is a one-woman creative office that crafts refined ...
Dec 28, 2020 · 35 min
131: Letters from Our Community
Our team put together a really special episode for you to ring out this year, sharing some of our favorite customer stories that came into our email inbox this year. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-131

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