Selvage Notes
A Maker’s Journal
Exploring the intersection of fiber arts, history, and slow creativity.
In Good Company: Finding Community Through Fiber Arts
When you picture a fiber artist at work, you might imagine someone alone at a loom, lost in the quiet rhythm. Or maybe you see a knitter tucked into the corner of a couch, tea nearby, soft music in the background. These images are accurate.
But fiber arts have never existed only in isolation.
From Jacquard to GPUs: The Textile Origins of Computing
Weaving and computing might seem worlds apart—one ancient and tactile, the other sleek and digital—but their histories are intertwined.
A Dog on the Loom: The Art of Letting Go
It's that stubborn project that began with a burst of excitement and the best of intentions, but somewhere along the way, it simply fizzled.
You have a dog on the loom.
The Radical Stitch: Fiber Arts as Resistance
For as long as there has been cloth, there have been people using it to speak, survive and defy. The history of textiles is not just a history of beauty, it’s also a history of rebellion.
The Power of Whimsy: On Creating Just Because
There’s often an unspoken message that unless your art is producing income, it’s not “real.” Unless it’s deep or dramatic or politically urgent, it’s not important. Unless it’s being seen or sold or published, maybe it doesn’t count.
I don’t believe that.
How to Set Up a Creative Space for Fiber Arts (No Studio Required)
When people picture a creative workspace, they often imagine the kind of dreamy setup you’d see in a magazine with sunlight filtering across a vintage loom.
But let’s be real.
Why Fiber Arts Matter Now More Than Ever
In a world of endless scrolling and instant results, there is something quietly radical about fiber arts. To sit down and weave, to knit row after row, to coax felt into form with the slow rhythm of a needle—these are not acts of urgency. They are acts of attention.
