Featured Artist Interview : Christi Johnson

We are very excited to have textile artist Christi Johnson as our eleventh artist. Christi Johnson is an artist, teacher, and author of the book Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment. Her work is inspired by cosmology, symbology, botanical forms, sustainability, and ritual. We were lucky enough to visit Christi’s studio in Swan Lake, NYContinue

Checking in with Heirloom artist: Andrew Boos

We are very excited to catch up with textile artist Andrew Boos. Andrew is a New York-based contemporary rug weaver, who takes inspiration from the world around him to create highly intricate rugs. It’s been a couple years since Andrew helped us kick off this project and we hope you are as excited as usContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Erin Wilson

We are very excited to have textile artist Erin Wilson as our tenth artist. Erin is a contemporary quilter based in New York who takes inspiration from the world around her to create highly intricate representational pieces.  Scroll down to read the interview, learn about her process and enjoy photos of Erin’s studio. How did your journeyContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Isa Rodrigues

We are very excited to have textile artist Isa Rodrigues as our ninth artist. Isa is a textile artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn but who grew up on the coast of Portugal. She is a founding member and Co-Executive Director of the Textile Arts Center, an important resource for both the local and broader textileContinue

019: Featured Peruvian Tapestry by Saturnino Oncebay

The Andes & Textile Primacy  The Andes mountains are the largest mountain range in the world creating a continuous highland along South America’s west coast. The dominance and scale of the Andes formed the backbone of three distinctive ecological areas in the region. Moving eastward from the coast of the Pacific Ocean, arid deserts giveContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Jessica Elena Aquino

We are very excited to have textile artist Jessica Elena Aquino as our eighth artist. Her work draws from her relationship to nature, memory, mythology and cultural iconography to create beautiful sculptural weavings and tapestries.  Scroll down to read the interview, learn about her process and enjoy photos of Jessica’s studio. How did you first get involved in theContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Richard Saja

We are very excited to have textile artist Richard Saja as our seventh artist. His work focuses on the ability to change a historical narrative by adding what he terms “interferences” through embellishing found toile and tapestries with hand embroidery to adapt their original meaning, thus rewriting or updating history in a sense. Scroll downContinue

018: Featured Bengali Nakshi Kantha

The Bengal Region Bengal is a region in South Asia of shared historical, cultural and linguistic heritage which is defined by the Ganges river delta. This low lying region where the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers enter into the Bay of Bengal is the largest river delta in the world. It is also one the most fertile placesContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Emma Welty

return to our site We are very excited to have textile artist Emma Welty as our sixth artist. She is a researcher and weaver who focuses in on her relationship to the loom through craft legacies, inherited muscle memory and the links between textiles and language. Scroll down to read the interview, learn about her process andContinue

Featured Artist Interview : Caroline Kaufman

return to our site We are very excited to have textile artist Caroline Kaufman as our fifth artist of Contemporary @ Heirloom. From painting to knitting to tufting, Caroline takes in the world around her and translates it into her own visual language. She lets color and texture speak to her and allows her subconscious to guideContinue