Bio: Brenda Gauvin-Chadwick has loved textiles since she was a young child, sewing her own clothes, knitting, embroidering, and of course making pot holders on a pot holder loom. She learned to weave in her late twenties from a very talented Swedish weaver in upstate New York, and with the exception of taking a hiatus when her children were young has continued to weave. She belongs to the Minnesota Weavers Guild and studies Scandinavian techniques with Scandinavian Weavers Group.

Description: I went to Bergen, Norway with a group of weavers from the Scandinavian Weavers Group in May of 2023 where we took a week long course on Norwegian weaving techniques. There I learned the rip technique in a very subtle intricate pattern. The warp was French DMC Cotton sett at 48 ends per inch. The weft was 16 (e.g. 16/1) linen at 36 picks per inch. The loom was set with such a high degree of tension on the warp that a paper pirn-bobbin bounced on it! Great fun!!!

brenchadwick@gmail.com