Textiles and Tea with Betty Davenport
Longtime PHG member Betty Davenport is basically self-taught. She started out learning weaving and spinning from books and building her own frame loom and inkle loom. Once her local guild began, she had more resources. She started with a rigid heddle loom and was fascinated with the use of a pick-up stick to create textures. She decided to explore this more with specialized study for the Handweaver’s Guild Certificate of Excellence (COE). The COE opened up opportunities for publishing the study as a book and designing projects for Handwoven Magazine. She likes the freedom of designing texture weaves on the rigid heddle and translating them to her 16-harness AVL Dobby.
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