Several months after teaching doubleweave at the 2013 Tinkuy conference I was contacted by Marilyn Murphy and asked if we could chat on the phone so that she could interview me about my experience and write an article for the Andean Textile Arts newsletter. I described in detail my process in preparing for the workshop, as well as how everything went in the class itself. I told her that it was one of the highlights…

Summer in Santa Fe is usually a time of nonstop events, and my favorite of all of these is the International Folk Art Market. Since it began 16 years ago I have worked as a volunteer each July to help out in booths of artisans from all over the world. After going to Peru in 2010 to attend the first Tinkuy and go on the Andean Textile Arts tour, I decided to specify each year…