Beth Ross Johnson
Beth Ross Johnson learned to weave from students of Norman Kennedy and has two extensive stays in Japan to study kasuri (Japanese ikat) and sakiori (rag weaving) there. She has an MFA in textiles from Georgia State University and teaches at the university level and regularly at craft schools and for weaving guilds and conferences. Recent explorations have been in European ikat traditions and in sashiko ori and she has written on these subjects and others for handweaving magazines such as Handwoven, Shuttle , Spindle & Dyepot, and VAV.
Beth maintains a weaving studio in Black Mountain, North Carolina.