Remembering Janet Meany

摘要

The weaving community lost a dear friend last October with the passing of Janet Meany. Janet was an accomplished weaver, artist, teacher, and writer who coauthored The Rag Rug Handbook and founded The Weaver's Friend, a periodic newsletter for rag rug weavers. She taught weaving at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and at workshops throughout the country. Her weavings have been exhibited at national and international venues and are featured in many textile collections. Over the years, she assembled a library of loom instruction manuals along with histories of looms and their makers, an invaluable reference that is now the Janet Meany Collection of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.