About Elizabeth
My work is made by hand in my home studio in Teton Valley, Idaho. I work only in natural fiber. The body of a piece is most often cloth I've sourced with care — sustainably made, and left undyed wherever I can — which I then cut, manipulate, and shape by hand. Into it I work my own handwoven and hand-knit cloth: the structural and identifying moments that only the hand can make. Found and vintage cloth comes in as accent, for the character and history it carries. Where a piece needs color, I reach first for natural dyes, then for certified sources — RWS and Oeko-Tex. My practice researches the intersection of woven and knit — both separately and together as a single cloth of two structures.
I explore textural interactions, material combinations, low-waste design practice, and what it means to be in relation with one's clothes over a lifetime and beyond: to know where your clothing comes from, to take care by mending & repairing, to come from the soil and return in the end, or to be kept as an heirloom — a legacy preserved in cloth.
PRESS:
Featured in Warp and Weft Online Magazine.
Appeared on PBS Charlotte's Carolina Impact.
EDUCATION
BFA in Fine Art, concentration in Fibers — University of North Carolina at Charlotte, summa cum laude.
WORK
Fiber Arts Lecturer, UNC Charlotte, 2025–2026.
Couture Collaboration
Once or twice a year I take on a single commission made entirely by hand — the cloth handwoven and hand-knit for one person, from the fiber up, and cut to their measurements.
We begin with a conversation: how you live, what the piece is for, the fiber and the color and the shape of it. From there I warp the loom or cast on, weave and knit the cloth itself, then draft and fit the garment to you. Unlike my originals, these are fitted rather than adjustable, and found cloth isn't used unless you ask for it as part of the brief. Fittings and adjustments are included through delivery; changes to the brief after the cloth is cut are quoted separately.
It takes months, not weeks. These are rare, and they are the only pieces I make entirely by my own hand from the fiber onward.
Your piece arrives with a signed photograph of it being finished in the studio, and with a small keepsake weaving made on the tapestry loom from your own garment's remnants — the warp and weft your piece leaves behind, and nothing else.