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Weaving
with natural fibers
Sarah Noggle
credits the Brown County Spinners and Weaver's Guild for most of the
knowledge she gained in fiber arts during the '80s and '90s. She
participated in many of the weaving, spinning, felting and other fiber art
workshops the guild sponsored during that time. With this fibery knowledge,
she went on to work and teach at Yarns Unlimited, a knitting and weaving
shop in Bloomington, for 25 years.
She has given workshops,
demonstrations and taught at fiber guilds across the Midwest, the
Indianapolis Children's Museum, with the Indiana State park system and at
Elderhostel events in Indiana.
Sarah's work tends toward more
practical woven items but at times she gets carried away with the downright
silly ... puppets and 3-D sculpture.
When she's not weaving, she
works with the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation as year-round
Volunteer Coordinator for world music events and children's educational
events.
Sarah, her husband David, and
their four grown children have built their own home over the last 30 years.
The studio was originally a barn for horses, sheep and rabbits, was
remodeled to be a wood shop, and then the weaving studio. She has four looms
and many interesting and odd accoutrements that come with working in fiber
including her great-great-great-grandmother's spinning wheel.
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