DARYL LANCASTERFIBER ARTIST
NEW JERSEY
e-mail: theweaver@weaversew.com
DARYL LANCASTER
FIBER ARTIST
NEW JERSEY
e-mail:
theweaver@weaversew.com
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Between the sewing machine and the loom, my journey in the fiber arts has taken over 40 years. From an alterations business at 15, to production hand-woven clothing, to custom art to wear, my work has covered, adorned, and embellished the female body for as long as I can remember. The skills I have developed sewing unusual fabrics, such as handwovens, and the years of experience fitting the female body have made for an interesting combination of material to offer in workshops, seminars, and lectures. A six year breast cancer survivor, I uses my work as a vehicle to express who I am and the path that I have traveled.
From how-to, to what-if, my workshops cover a broad range of topics, primarily in garment construction and finishing techniques for hand-weavers and other types of fiber artists. Many of my workshop and lecture topics are available in self published monographs, full color and spiral bound. Click on Monographs.
In my artwork, I use clothing as a canvas, it is the covering for our body which is the covering for our soul. Instead of using clothing to hide figure flaws and perceived defects, we should be using clothing to celebrate the soul within, to sing, to decorate, to embellish, and what better vehicle than something that has come from our own hands. My art garments use piecing techniques to recycle anything that resembles fiber. The use of recycled fibers, handwovens, animal furs, old bits of embellishment, allows me to revisit the past, not to dwell on what wasn't, but to learn and enjoy from past mistakes and experiences which have shaped who I have become. Old work becomes new raw material. Our lives are a constant process of recycled experiences. The digital images used in my art work give visual clarity to the clothing canvases. Click on the Photo Gallery to view details of my art garments.
Sewing has taken
on a new interest for a new generation. It
not only reduces stress but allows us to create garments, body
coverings, and accessories,
which reflect and speak for the soul within. My workshops are about
technique and
philosophy, about discovering who we are and what we want to
say. 
I weave to WeaveCast! Click on the icon at
the left to download episode 26, a podcast interview with me by Syne Mitchell of
WeaveCast, 'Sew Your Weaving'!
Look
for my latest article, "Photographing your Work" in the Summer issue
of Weavezine, the online weaving
magazine.
You may view my list of possible workshops and lectures by going to the Workshop Listings. You may download a PDF format prospectus for each workshop/lecture by clicking on the link listed in each topic. Materials lists, facility requirements, workshop/lecture descriptions, and a brief bio are all available on the prospectus for that topic. If you would like to see my current teaching schedule, please go to the 2008-2009 Schedule. Thumbnails of the garments representing various workshops are with the Workshop Listings. For other photographs and descriptions of my work, please go to the Photo Gallery. To view my resume/bio, please go to Resume.
As Contributing Features Editor for Handwoven Magazine. www.interweave.com from 2002-2008, I wrote a number of articles including the popular Fashion and Color Forecast Column. For a PDF file of my first article which appeared in the Nov/Dec 2000 issue (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) please go to Slice and Dice . A list of all my articles, essays, and columns can be found in my Resume.
If you would like to send me E-mail please contact me at theweaver@weaversew.com
For directions in a PDF format for the
Triangular Buttonholes found in Tracy Kaestner's article in the
November/December 2006 issue of Handwoven Magazine,
click here.
I use and recommend Janome machines for all my sewing
adventures! www.janome.com