We’ve been weaving for almost 40 years. We started in the 70’s, taking and eventually teaching classes at the Little Loom House in Louisville, KY.
We began with simple products, placemats, scarves and simple household items, and developed a broad repertoire of items we’ve displayed in juried crafts fairs throughout Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Weaving began as a hobby, but over the years, it’s been transformed into a creative, artistic outlet that allows us to produce elegant, quality items to share with others in the community. We don’t yet have both feet in the information age, but our children helped us build a site to share with our customers, friends and family so that we could reach as many people as possible with the pleasure of our products.
The kids would tell you we started weaving with our youngest child and never stopped. As they grew, they helped with producing products, preparing looms and weaving through the summer, and traveling with us to display and sell our products throughout the season. They still remember rolling around in the back of a blue Econoline van in the eighties, taking naps and running errands while we worked our booths at crafts fairs.
As life-long educators, we’ve spent a great deal of time working with the community. We’ve received grants from the states of Indiana and Kentucky to open schoolchildren to the wonders of weaving. We’ve worked with the mentally and physically disabled to provide a structured creative outlet at the Rauch Center in New Albany Indiana. We’ve demonstrated the craft of handweaving and spinning at numerous community fairs and presentations. By coaching and communicating with a number of hand-weavers in the area, we’ve been able to keep in touch with a strong and seasoned group of artists who have made their own journeys from hobby to business over the years.
We have a short walk to work each morning as our production studio is in our home. We have one large floor loom we use for rugs, placemats and wide garment fabric. We have several smaller floor looms and even a few table looms we use for weaving. Since we’re known in the community as weavers, occasionally, someone will have us “adopt” a loom for a few months while we work to find a new home for it. And sometimes, we come across additional looms in yard sales. Each loom has its own character and works best for weaving certain types of fabric. For several years, we have attempted to send our children home with the smaller table looms, but after growing up glued to the loom as children, they prefer to leave the looms with us and just come visiting.
Our guarantee: The most important thing to us is our ability to build a handcrafted item from the ground up, designing products to bring satisfaction and pleasure to each customer. We pride ourselves on offering items of the finest quality for a competitive price and want each customer to find complete satisfaction in their purchase. For that reason we offer a money-back guarantee on all of our products. If you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase, please contact us so that we may work with you to offer a replacement item, credit toward future purchases or your money back.
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