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Home » Meet – Karen Donde

Meet – Karen Donde

Karen Donde - Instructor

Karen Donde

Karen Donde weaves wearables and home textiles for exhibit and teaches beginning-advanced weaving, in-person and online.
Conference teaching includes HGA’s Convergence, Northern California Handweavers, MAFA, Midwest Weavers, Intermountain Weavers, NEWS, Contemporary Handweavers of Texas and Florida Tropical Weavers.
She shared a weaving/teaching studio in Asheville, NC, for five years, and now offers private lessons at her Western North Carolina home studio.
Karen is Complex Weavers Past President, a member of Cross Country Weavers and the Southern Highland Craft Guild and a graduate of Haywood Community College’s fiber program. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, she now writes for and about weavers, including articles in Handwoven, Little Looms, Complex Weavers Journal and Heddlecraft®.
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Teaching these classes at the 2027 FTWG Conference


Designing Handwoven Fabric to Wear with Karen Donde

Designing Handwoven Fabric


Handwoven Lace Techniques with Karen Donde

Handwoven Lace Techniques

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