Specialization in 3D Textured Tapestry and Weaving Techniques

Jen Duffin is a fiber artist based in Montreal, Québec. As a child, she loved making art, but didn’t make a career out of it until later in life—learning to weave mostly through online courses and lots of practice. For her, making art is more than a passion, it’s a way to heal and bring joy. Jen lives with chronic illness, and a lot of her inspiration comes from turning difficult experiences into something beautiful.

With more than 131K followers on Instagram, Jen has been featured in publications such as Be Creative and In Her Studio magazine, and she has been a guest on several podcasts. Her signature rainbow woven artwork was selected as a finalist in the Etsy Design Awards in 2019, winning the Canadian People’s Choice award.

Lucy is a Brighton-based fiber artist specialized in weaving and punch needle embroidery. She is completely self-taught and comes from a creative family that has always encouraged her to create. Her father, a self-taught carpenter, builds the looms Lucy uses to teach workshops across the UK.

In addition to her craft work and workshops, she has written tutorials for magazines as well as her own craft books. She has done various commissioned, and has been featured in Mollie Makers Magazine. She also runs her own online shop, Peas and Needles.

Marion Weymes is a textile artist and project manager from Dublin, Ireland, who discovered her love for textile art after searching for a new creative project to disconnect from screens and technology. What started as a therapeutic hobby quickly became a newfound passion. She is a self-taught artist who found her own style through trial and error experimentation.

Today, Marion creates large art pieces that she sells on her website and shares on her Instagram account.

Cassandra Sabo is a textile designer and weaver from Montreal, Canada. She initially moved to London to pursue a degree in textile design at Central Saint Martins, and eventually moved to Oxford with her husband and children, and founded The Oxford Weaving Studio.

From her studio, she shares her love and knowledge of weaving and the broader fiber arts with her community. Cassandra also researched, designed and developed The Oxford Frame Loom, a new type of frame loom that aims to bridge the gap between hand-weaving and tapestry weaving, enabling weavers of all levels to discover and explore this craft in new ways.

Allyson Rousseau is a fiber artist based in Pictou, Nova Scotia. She studied studio art at the University of Guelph where she practiced painting, drawing, and sculpture, and later discovered contemporary weaving whilst doing research for her assignment. She quickly began teaching herself how to weave out of curiosity, and quit her full-time job to pursue a career in the art form in 2016. Allyson first began selling her work on Etsy and posting on Instagram, before setting up her own website.

Since then, she has created over 200 custom pieces for homes in Canada, the US, Australia, and beyond. She has also collaborated with brands including We Are Knitters, exhibited her work internationally, and been featured in publications including KOEL Magazine, House & Home, and Mollie Makes.

Rachel Snack is a weaver, educator and textile artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University.

Rachel is the founder of Weaver House, a textile studio, yarn shop and weaving school dedicated to preserving craft tradition through hand-making and weaving education.

Rachel has conserved objects for exhibitions at The National Constitution Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, The NY Public Library and The Museum of Arts and Design. She has exhibited her work internationally, and taught courses on weaving and fiber dyeing to hundreds of students. She has been an artist-in-residence at T.E.X.E.R.E in Mexico, The Burren College of Art in Ireland, and Awamaki in Peru.