Traditional to Faux: Exploring Woven Shibori - Guest Speaker, Kathleen Waln

Kathleen has been working with fiber & fabric for over forty years, first as a theatre educator/costume designer and more recently as a fabric designer. She has been dyeing, spinning, and weaving for over twenty years. Her passions include Shibori, Ikat and researching the history of the fabric arts. She enjoys making connections between her field and larger cultural patterns, an interest that dates back to her years as a university professor and costume historian.

Although, retired from the university, she now teaches Tapestry at the Charter Oak Weaving and Spinning class in Covina, which is famous for its 100 looms in one large room! She also harvests her own wild, organic cotton trees and loves to dye and spin their yield. Kathleen holds a MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin where her love of weaving began.