Weaver Therese May began to explore making cloth twenty-five years ago, when her husband Steve was given a loom. Therese & Steve collaborate on projects, with Steve working out mathematical details while Therese focuses on color, warping the looms and weaving. Therese weaves dishtowels, table runners, tapestries, rugs, scarves and baby blankets. They visit yarn stores wherever they travel because finding, touching and envisioning the textile in a project is fun and inspirational.
Therese enjoys the design challenges, the endless choices of fiber, the lovely feel of textiles and the meditative quality a weaving rhythm offers. There are also many surprises in weaving and each new project provides a new learning experience. Though largely self-taught, Therese has been fortunate to be mentored by local weavers of the Mother Lode Weavers and Spinners Guild and Sacramento Weavers and Spinners Guild. She has two floor looms that usually have very different projects on them. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of the loom and its mechanics may vary, but the basic function is the same.
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