This Month
October 25, 2007 - "Doubleweave" - Jan Doyle
Jan Doyle is a full-time fiber artist and teacher. She currently teaches weaving and special fiber projects at the University of Rhode Island and in her studio in Charlestown, RI.
Doyle began weaving in 1990 after discovering a loom in a friend’s home. She is mostly self-taught but owes much of her technical skill and inspiration to Norma Smayda of the Saunderstown Weaving School where she met many weavers who encouraged her to pursue the exploration of Doubleweave pick-up.
In 1992 her work was spotted in an informal fashion at Convergence, the national convention of the Handweavers Guild of America and soon her works were featured in Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. In the summer of 2005 her works appeared in Fiberarts magazine.
She travels throughout the U.S. and Canada teaching doubleweave, pick-up, color theory, design, and shibori dyeing to guilds and conferences.
Her works have been exhibited and commissioned in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Most recently her works were featured at the Flaten Art Museum in St. Olaf Minnesota and the Artworks Gallery New Bedford , Massachusettts, and presently appear at the Digital Museum of Modern Art. (
