ABOUT
How WEFT Started
After 12 years of creating PLY Magazine, the magazine for spinners, Jacey Boggs Faulkner partnered with Lisa Graves embarked on a new adventure. It started with a dream, led to a wildly successful kickstarter, and we’re excited to see what happens next!
MEET THE WEFT TEAM
Creative Director & Publisher
Jacey Boggs Faulkner started and runs PLY Magazine. She’s spinner, a teacher, weaver, and a writer. Her passions have come together for the past 20 years via PLY Magazine, PLY Away, the PLY Spinners Guild, and her workshops all over the world. She’s in love with weaving and is excited to take her knowledge of publishing and how to produce a stunning and smart magazine and marry it with Lisa’s knowledge of weaving to create WEFT.
Editor
Lisa Graves’s entire life changed the moment she threw her first shuttle – in that instant she knew there wasn’t anything else she ever wanted to do more. Ten years later, Lisa is an international handweaving instructor and spends most of her time learning everything she can about weaving and sharing that knowledge with her students. She owns Kawartha Weaving, a private weaving studio in Ontario, Canada.
Assistant Editor
Chen Chen Koh is a fibre arts educator and weaving practitioner in Singapore. With a background in education and a deep love of textiles, she works across teaching, writing, and making, and is especially interested in how hands-on craft can slow us down and support thoughtful learning. When she isn’t weaving or teaching at her studio, Chen Chen is usually experimenting with new techniques or quietly planning her next project.
Creative Director/Designer
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick is the long-time art director of PLY Magazine. She’s also a designer, illustrator, fine artist, nascent ukulele player, and married to a prolific spinner and fiber artist. She is delighted to be directing her abilities toward the task of making WEFT Magazine fabulous.
Photographer
Bernadette Emerson is a maker, editor, musician, and mother. She’s the only photographer that PLY Magazine has ever had and promises to bring as much beauty and clarity to WEFT.
Draft Maker
Jennifer Kwong is a Canadian designer and illustrator with a love of cats, colour, math, learning, laughing, experimenting, and making things. She finds joy in spinning and weaving, where many of her favourite interests come together. She has not yet attempted to spin or weave her cat’s hair but suspects it’s only a matter of time.
Illustrator
Arlo Boggs has been drawing since they could hold a crayon. They want to live with their mom forever (or she wants them to live with her forever, it‘s hard to tell). They want to be a tattoo artist and they’re not nearly as shady as they look.
Advertising
Jeannie Sanke is thrilled to be part of WEFT and loves working with fiber arts businesses to help share their products with the WEFT community.
Editorial Assistant, Customer Service, Wholesale
Sarah Ross Kelliher is a former librarian who loves working with her hands. She enjoys knitting, crocheting, spinning, and weaving. She’s passionate about spreading the love of fiber and holds spinning demonstrations for whoever will listen. She’s excited to help share that love with the readers of WEFT Magazine!
Weaving Tech Editor
Jette Vandermeiden became a weaver the day she graduated with a science degree. Now retired, she spent many years teaching weaving widely around the world and through Teanaustaye Textiles Weaving Studio with a focus on weave structure and interlacement. Drawn to drawlooms, she is happily well-shafted.
Copy Editor
Sara Israel is a word nerd who loves helping craft writers share their expertise. Crafting and reading have been her favorite activities since childhood, and editing craft books and magazines is her grown-up excuse for doing those things every day. Sara enjoys knitting, sewing, quilting, bookbinding, and stamp carving, and she can’t wait to add spinning and weaving to the list.
Proofreader
Rachael Prest is a trained copyeditor and proofreader. She’s a certified expert and falling down yarny rabbit holes, and is now adding embroidery to her other hobbies – spinning, knitting, crochet and weaving. She’s also a long-time indie dyer, and is the face behind Cat & Sparrow UK, a small-batch hand-dyed yarn and fiber company. She lives in Bristol, UK, with her two kids, her cat and her husband, a collection of spindles and wheels, and an office full of wool.
WEFT Magazine
WEFT Magazine is a space for weavers at all levels of skill. We are an inclusive and diverse community that embraces all weavers and welcomes everyone to create a brave space to question, challenge, and support one another. We strongly believe that the more diverse our community is, the stronger our community is. Our core beliefs of kindness, diversity, and inclusivity inform everything we do. Racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to remove anyone who meaningfully and purposefully disrupts the community or makes other members feel unsafe.