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Sara Bixler
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Sara Knisely, daughter of resident weaving instructor Tom Knisely, joined the ManningÕs staff in December of 2006. She had just completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Science in Art Education at Edinboro University. Among her array of interests in the field of fiber arts, both functional and sculptural Sara enjoys knitting, dyeing, spinning & weaving. She takes pleasure in her time here at the ManningÕs creating and fostering an environment where students can push their creativity beyond Òcookie cutterÓ design. Sara enjoys the pursuit for the most unique materials and color composition in each piece she designs for both her individual works, as well as her mission to guide a studentÕs work.
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Juanita Breidenbaugh
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Juanita Breidenbaugh began spinning and weaving almost 20 years ago. She uses all natural dyes on her handspun and other yarns and fibers. She has given natural dye workshops for a variety of guilds and at the Manning's. Along with her collection of antique spinning wheels and textile equipment, Juanita resides in Jarrettsville, MD.
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Missy Burns
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Missy Burns has been teaching knitting classes for 6 years. She co-owned, Wool in the Woods, a company that produced hand dyed yarns.
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Cathie Chung & Diane Smith
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Cathie Chung and Diane Smith are owners of Just Our Yarn (JOY), a company that came together because of their love of fiber and color. They bead, weave, braid, spin, dye, knit and crochet. JOY was founded on their experience teaching and managing a retail shop for a fiber arts school. Between them they have nearly 40 years “fiber” experience. For the last 9 years they have traveled across the country sharing their love of color and helping weavers overcome their fear of too much color.
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Cathie Chung and Diane Smith
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Cathie Chung and Diane Smith are owners of Just Our Yarn (JOY), a company that came together because of their love of fiber and color. They bead, weave, braid, spin, dye, knit and crochet. JOY was founded on their experience teaching and managing a retail shop for a fiber arts school. Between them they have nearly 40 years “fiber” experience. For the last 9 years they have traveled across the country sharing their love of color and helping weavers overcome their fear of too much color.
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Jason Collingwood
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Jason Collingwood set up his own full-time weaving workshop in 1987 after having learned rug weaving in his father's studio, where he has worked since 1982. Over the years he has supported himself through weaving, with just a little help from his part-time job as a fireman in the English village of Colchester where he lives. Jason has exhibited and sold his work in many shows in Europe and the USA. In 1996 he was chosen to be a member of the elite "British Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers". Jason has added teaching to his itinerary since he now spends several months a year training rug weavers in the USA, Canada and Switzerland.
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Rae Cumbie
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Rae Cumbie has been creating clothing for women and children in her home-based studio for over 20 years. Her custom gowns for weddings and special occasions have earned her a place as one of Baltimore’s most sought –after dressmakers. She also creates custom artful wearables and limited edition jackets that have been shown at galleries and craft shows including the 2005 Strathmore Hall Juried Member Artist Exhibit.
Rae is a founding member and past president of the Baltimore Chapter of The Professional Association of Custom Clothiers (PACC) and serves the organization nationally as Vice Chair for Chapter Relations. She has taught numerous classes for the Baltimore Chapter, led workshops at the 1999, 2000, and 2003 PACC National Educational Conferences, the 2001 PACC National Regional Conference, The Creative Strands Conference in 2004, Susan Khalje’s Couture Sewing School, The Baltimore Weavers Guild, The Seminole Sampler Wearable Arts Club, and the Easton Sewing Group. She has written several articles for Threads Magazine and Sew News Magazine.
Rae and her husband Jim, an attorney, have two daughters. She is a graduate of The University of Richmond with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Sociology. Rae is active in her church music program and volunteers with the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland.
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Deb Glass
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Deb Glass lives in Airville, PA. She began knitting and crocheting when she was a child and has since expanded her interests to dyeing, felting, spinning & weaving over the last 30 years. Deb and her husband raised long wool sheep and owed a small mail order fiber business for 12 years. Her past experiences include: teaching elementary students handworks at Susquehanna Waldorf School; teaching knitting, spinning, felting, dyeing; fleece and garment judging at local fairs. Currently, her interests are designing and incorporating traditional techniques into knitted garments with her hand dyed yarns.
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Susan Hopkins
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Susan HopKins is an active member of both the New Jersey and North American Mycological Associations. She has been studying mushrooms for almost 20 years. Although her initial interest in mushrooms was learning to identify them, she soon became fascinated by their dyeing qualities.
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Thomas E. Knisely
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Tom Knisely, general manager and resident instructor joined the Manning's staff in 1977. He began his career in fiber arts as a spinner but soon progressed into almost all facets of fiber arts: weaving spinning and dyeing. Tom's interests were sparked by a love for antique tools. With the purchase of an antique spinning wheel at the age of 14 he was self-taught, learning the craft through reading and simple trial and error. After a few years with a small mountain of yarn to use Tom turned to weaving and has not looked back. With more than 35 years of experience his interests lay mostly in historic American textiles, as well as global indigenous people's traditions in weaving. Tom enjoys collecting various examples of textiles and often utilizes them as teaching tools with his students, when relevant to focused class discussions. Tom is also a frequent contributor to publications such as "Handwoven Magazine".
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Rodrick Owens
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Rodrick has been making braids for 30 years He trained as a mature student at the London college of Furniture, completing the City and Guilds 'Creative Textiles' program, qualifying with distinctions in 1981. He was educated in Australia, and spent 25 years working in industry, leaving in 1973 to found a residential learning center in France. Currently his research is expanding to cover braids throughout Europe and Asia. In 1984 he was awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship to study Kumihimo in Japan. Arts and Crafts Council grants have supported his work, leading to exhibitions and commissions including those for Linda and Paul McCartney, Textile Designers and Industry. He has written a book "Braids 250 Patterns from Japan Peru and Beyond". A book "Making Kumihimo Japanese Interlaced Braids" is due for release in the Spring of 2004. Articles on his work have appeared in several magazines in the UK and USA.
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Joan S. Ruane
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Ever since Joan returned from her one year visit in New Zealand in 1973, she has been demonstrating and teaching spinning classes throughout the US, Canada and New Zealand. She has owned and operated fiber art shops in both Florida and Arizona. Most familiar is Spin'n Weave which she operated for 12 years in Tucson. Southwest Corner was a mail order and "retreat Workshop" business, which Joan set up after moving to Bisbee, AZ. Presently she continues to teach, writes articles on spinning and has produced two educational videos: Cotton Spinning Made Easy and Cotton Spinning With a Takli. Joan also sells to fiber shops a top quality cotton sliver that she has especially prepared for hand-spinners which is called "Easy to Spin." Through Joan's efforts, the Bisbee Community Fiber Arts Guild boasts one of the most complete Fiber Art Studio in the region. Classes are being offered on a regular basis of which Joan teaches or directs. Joan's web site is: www.cottonspinning.com.
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Andrea Miller Theisson
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Andrea has a BFA in textiles, magna cum laude from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and over 30 years of weaving experience. She has taught fiber art classes, private lessons, non-credit college level classes, and works part-time as a library technician while homeschooling a teenager and maintaining a free-lance studio...there were also many years of travel to conferences and fiber studios and galleries across the nation!
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Debra Jo Tily
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Debra Jo Tily lives in Littlestown, PA where she raises a few Jacobs sheep to support her need to needle felt, knit , crochet , dye, and spin. Her love for fiber arts began when she was taught to crochet by her grandmother when she was only 6 years of age. By watching her mother, she taught herself to sew, which lead to designing and making clothes for herself and her family. Over the 25 years of owning/operating a Ballroom Dance Studio, Debra designed ball gowns for her students. With the birth of her son, Debra had the time, and motivation to pursue crochet. In the past 11 years, she has retired from Ballroom Dance and enjoyed having her hand in the fiber arts and giving that enjoyment to others through teaching classes in crochet, knitting, and needle felting, and creating one-of-a-kind projects.
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Laverne Waddington
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Laverne Waddington lives in Bolivia and has spent the past fourteen years
studying spinning, weaving, and braiding techniques with native artists in
Bolvia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Guatemala. She is quickly becoming
acknowledged as this generation’s favorite educator on backstrap weaving and
other techniques of the South American highlands.
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Susan Weaver
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Susan Weaver has been a hand weaver for over 25 years. She began her textile studies at The Mannings. From there she traveled to Mexico and Arizona, studying a variety of indigenous textile structures. She worked as a textile educator/demonstrator at Landis Valley Museum, a PA German living-history museum, in Lancaster, PA, for 7 years. While there, she researched Pa German looms and historical textiles. An article she wrote for Handwoven Magazine, September/October 2006 issue, outlines the history and uses of the PA German tape loom. Currently, Susan is a member of the PA Guild of Craftsmen and a Heritage Craftsman of Lancaster County. She has been teaching a variety of weaving classes for a number of years and locally sells her handwoven textiles.
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Mary Wilson
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Mary's interest in fiber arts started at an early age when her mother taught her to crochet and sew. Through the years she has enjoyed other creative arts such as quilting, knitting and felting. Mary enjoys teaching and inspiring others to make their own original designs and taught apparel design classes at Baltimore City Community College. All this has led her to alpaca fiber and now she and her husband are raising alpacas in New Windsor, Maryland.
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Heather Zoppetti
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Heather Zoppetti has been obsessed with fiber arts for the last ten years.
She is a web programmer by day, a designer by night and a knitter always.
Among her other hobbies are spinning, tatting, crochet and teaching. She has
had several patterns published in Interweave Knits and also self publishes
patterns on her website, digitalnabi.com.
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