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Lynnette Beam
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Lynnette joined The Mannings staff in the spring of 1999. She is interested in many aspects of the textile arts, as well as the crafts. After spending several years as Tom's assistant in the weaving studio, Lynnette married and moved to Canada. She now teaches for us as her schedule and trips to the US permits. Lynnette spends her time chasing after son Alex, weaving, knitting lace and making Temari balls.
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Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser
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Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser, founder and owner of Carol Leigh's Specialties and Hillcreek Fiber Studio since 1982, teaches many types of weaving, spinning and natural dyeing at both her home studio in Columbia, Missouri, and around the country. Her major focus for her Master's Degree research was in the historic use of natural dyes. She has produced a 90-minute video on the Continuous Strand Weaving Method on the Triangle Frame Loom, and continues to explore that weaving method on the triangle, square, and now rectangle shapes, designing clothing and home apparel. She is currently working on a comprehensive book exploring that technique. Carol Leigh is fascinated by weaving and dyeing techniques of other cultures, and has studied Navajo weaving and dyeing on the reservation, and kilim and pile carpet weaving and traditional dye techniques in Turkey. Through her family business, she offers a comprehensive selection of natural dyes and dye aids, adjustable frame looms designed and patented by her son, and a variety of yarns, tools, supplies, and books for weaving, dyeing and spinning.
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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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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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Melissa Weaver Dunning
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Melissa Weaver Dunning is a ballad singer and a traditional handweaver. She has been singing for as long as she can remember and making things with her hands for almost that long. Melissa is an avid tartan and linen weaver, a compulsive knitter, and likes to mess around with beads, thread and bits of cloth. She loves to teach people how to unleash their creativity and make cool things. Melissa lives with her husband Peter in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where they run the Bluemont Concert Series, an award-winning regional arts organization. They have three daughters and two corgis.
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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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Stephanie Corina Goddard
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Stephanie Corina Goddard is a self-taught sewer who opened her first custom sewing business at age 17 -- and that was a very long time ago! For over fifteen years she has channeled her creative energy toward educating others, inspiring students at every skill level from the beginning sewer to the advanced wearable artist. Stephanie's innovative construction methods have appeared in Threads, Sew News, Australian Stitches, Creative Machine Embroidery, and American Quilter. Stephanie's philosophy on wearable art is printed on the hangtag of her clothing line, which reads: "Wearable Art for Real People Being Seen in Real Places". A prolific hand knitter, her "Knit Some, Sew Some" method of garment construction merges sewing and knitting skills in distinctive practical garments. She lives in Easton, MD.
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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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Sara Knisely
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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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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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Donna Ritchie
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Donna has been a homemaker most of her life, knitting and crocheting for her family and for charity. Her fascination with crochet began at her grandmother's knee when she was very young. From learning to crochet a chain to attach her mittens together, she progressed to making dish cloths and stuffed toys to donate to charity and vests to wear to high school. More recently her passion has been for afghans and lace doilies.
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Dorothy Smullen
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Dorothy Smullen has been the past president of
both the New Jersey Mycological Association and the Northeast Mycological Federation. Dorothy has been involved with mushrooms since 1975.
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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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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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