SWG Gallery of Weavers

Siiri Bennett

Siiri is the Designer and Weaver for KeaCloth Handwoven, a Seattle-based studio that designs and weaves custom fabrics for interiors and custom apparel.

Cheri Bridges

Cheri is the owner of Ah! Kimono, which offers unique and beautiful vintage Japanese kimono fabric, Burmese silk, Australian Aboriginal prints and other designer fabric as well as embellishments from around the world.

Khris Fruits
Khris is a writer and weaves professionally as Quotha Creations. He creates a range of beautiful and useful textiles from dishtowels to yoga mats, as well as beautiful scarves.

Gay Jensen
Award-winning Seattle fiber artist Gay Jensen weaves, dyes and paints fabrics creating art that delights the eye, engages the mind and speaks to the spirit.

Marcy Johnson
Marcy owns Weaving Works, a thriving local yarn store in the heart of Seattle's University district. It carries supplies for a wide range of textile pursuits, including spinning, weaving and knitting.

Syne Mitchell
Syne is the host of WeaveCast, an Internet-based talk radio show about handweaving. Each episode she interviews a prominent weaver, describes the process of creating a swatch, catches you up on the latest weaving news, and relates a story from the weaving life.

Marilyn Moore
Working in fibers is a natural medium for Marilyn. As a child she learned to embroider, knit, crochet, and sew. Her love of fiber work continued into adulthood adding spinning, weaving and basketry to her fiber vocabulary. As a basket artist she has shown her work nationally and regionally, and has taught at national conventions and conferences.

Astrid Monique Muller-Karger
Our connection to nature is tied to its most fickle and powerful forces. It is not the stagnant landscape that reflects our often outrageous internal worlds. It is natural phenomena, such as meteorological and geological forces, at work on land, city, and sea through which we personify our feelings & thoughts. Using plant & animal materials, Astrid weaves rustic textures of the earth to abstractly capture the forces of nature that are ever altering our world.

Lynn Pinkoske
Lynn creates "one of a kind" clothing and accessories using different hand crafted art techniques, including knitting, dyeing, weaving, nuno and needle felting. She especially loves to work with sustainable fibers such as bamboo and tencel.

Susan Snover
Custom Handweaving by Susan Snover is celebrating 33 years of producing rag rugs and other beautiful and functional handwoven household items. Her work is carefully woven by hand on a Swedish loom and designed to last.

Robyn Spady
Robyn is a talented weaver and weaving instructor, working in areas as diverse as complex double-stitch cloth on a 16-shaft AVL and inkle looms.

Bonnie Tarses
Bonnie is a weaver with an amazing color sense. In addition to commissioned works, she teaches classes which include "Easy Ikat" and "Weaving a Horoscope."

Margaret C. Wheeler
Margaret works in silk fusion. She has found that weaving the silk pieces together offers a beautiful, unique background for creating one of a kind wall art. She uses many different needle arts to accomplish her vision.

Cyndi is a weaver and dyer who loves the interplay between color, fiber and structure. She has been creating and embellishing cloth for over 20 years. In addition to her woven work, Cyndi creates stitched shibori fabric and makes lapel pins of vintage kimono fabric embellished with beads, fetishes, embroidery and findings.

Barbara Zander
Barbara is a weaver and a dyer. She uses her original silk fabric to create 3D sculptures that give the viewer the ability to see art cloth from all sides. She also weaves silk scrolls and scarves.

Judy Zugish
Contemporary basketry with unusual and natural materials, rich in technique, are an extension of her personal artistic directions. Judy teaches across the United States as well as in the garden studio in Marysville, Washington. Her work is displayed in a number of galleries in the Northwest and throughout the country. The school is set amidst Bouquet Banque, Judy's 2 acre nursery and perennial gardens.