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Featured artist 2025
JANET FINCH
Fiber Fair is thrilled to announce that our Featured Artist of 2025 is Janet Finch.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Janet Finch has been spinning g and weaving for more than 30 years. She has enjoyed studying fiber arts at workshops and conferences. After a short career in wool processing she has settled into the weaving craft. As a master spinner she has recently been using her handspun cotton in weaving projects.
Traveling to visit weavers in other countries has been a fun adventure. She visited cotton weavers in Ecuador 10 years ago, learning spinning and weaving techniques from indigenous weavers there.
More recently she has traveled to SE Asia, Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam, and Laos. Taking the “Above the Fray” Textile Tour was an amazing learning experience.
Janet made friends in a tiny village in Laos and has plans to continue to study the Lao styles of weaving. She also has plans to help this village to upgrade their tourist operations where they teach weaving, dying, spinning, basket making and paper making.
“I’ll spin and weave as much as I can for the rest of my life.”