Textiles & Tea Episode 180 Sam Goates

Textiles & Tea with Sam Goates The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.'s (HGA) takes place every Tuesday at 4 PM (ET). We've invited some of the most respected fiber artists in the field today to join us for an hour-long conversation where we discuss their artwork and their creative journey. Make a cup of your favorite tea and join us as we talk about fiber, creativity, inspiration, process and so much more. Sam Goates began her own journey around the world of the textile industry at the Glasgow School of Art, though the make-do-and-mend approach of her parents was the real beginning, with sewing, dressmaking, and handspinning. After graduation, a 20-year "holiday" in Australia followed, being paid to be creative and design woven textiles. In 2008 Sam swapped busy Sydney for the seas and skies of Scotland’s Moray Firth coast. She took on a range of project work, from freelance design to product development as well as training projects across the textile industry. The common theme was a desire to promote weaving and wool at both the industry and artisan level. In a rickety shed by a fishing harbour, Sam has brought into the world her very own mini-micro weaving mill, Woven In The Bone. Here she tends to her nursery of vintage machines and foot-treadle looms, each with their own cantankerous characters, cajoling them into life to produce artisan woollen cloth to export around the world. This episode originally aired on June 25, 2024.