Handwoven Textiles
What I weave! Beautiful and practical kitchen towels, lovely throws, table clothware, elegant scarves and shawls that add comfort and style every day.
Sourcing natural fibers—cotton, wool, mohair, linen, and silk—I work with craft, math, and focus on a Schacht Standard 4-harness loom and a Louët Spring II 8-harness loom. Love them both!
The same thought, deliberation, skill, and care that went into our farmstead cheeses now goes into every piece we weave. We're creating modern designs with intention, the way we always worked for over 20 years with our goats. Like cheesemaking, weaving has many skill components!
On the loom now: twill kitchen towels in natural, taupe, and soft greens, bright scarves in cotton with silk accents, turned twill scarves in linen. I have some 100% US-produced mohair yarn coming in that I'm excited to try!
If our cheeses found a place in your kitchen and on your table, we hope our textiles will too. We'd be honored to create something beautiful for your home.
(You will see a few pictures of goats, our tribute to over 20 years of working with these amazing creatures. Like weaving, farmstead cheesemaking had many skill components!)
In the studio
I’ve been weaving this new venture over the last months. It’s my farming transition!
You may have known Michael and I (Tricia) over the last 25 years for our farmstead goat cheese and our Oberhasli herd.
But in a twist of fate, floor looms have replaced our goat herd. I’m designing and weaving textiles that I promise are made with as much care, craft, and love as our nationally awarded cheeses.
Some of my designs are original and others are inspired/derived from Jane Stafford Textiles; Marguerete Porter Davison’s “A Handweaver’s Pattern Book”; Carol Strickler’s “A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns”, and Marian Stubenitsky’s “Weaving MAX8”.
I’ve wanted to do this for years!
Alys takes the herd back home. 2019
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