HANDWOVEN GARMENT GALLERY
LIZ SPEAR HANDWOVEN FEATURES TEN STYLE GROUPS OF ART-TO-WEAR GARMENTS
This includes Shirts, Vests and Lined Jackets as well as Exhibition-Oriented Celebration and Fit-n-Flare Coats. All are handwoven, cut and sewn by me. This means that there are only a hundred or so garments made in a year.
EACH GARMENT IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND PIECE OF WEARABLE ART
SEE MY HANDWOVEN GARMENTS IN-PERSON
The best place to see, and try on, my garments is at one of the six or so CRAFT FAIRS & EXHIBITIONS in which I and my booth partner, Neal Howard, participate in annually. I aim to fill our double booth with 65 to 75 garments per fair, with as wide a range of fabrics, sizes and colors as I can manage.
SEE MY HANDWOVEN GARMENTS IN STORES
The second best place to try on my garments is at the FOLK ART CENTER in Asheville, NC, or the PIEDMONT CRAFTSMEN GALLERY in Winston-Salem, NC. Both of these fine craft stores carry a number of my pieces.
A NUMBER OF MY GARMENTS FEATURE NUNO FELTING
My large sheets of nuno felting are made using commercially and artist dyed merino wool and various thin, commercially woven silk fabrics that have been dyed or printed by artist friends. For more information on Nuno Felting CLICK HERE.
I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT JUST SEEING A PICTURE ISN’T SUFFICIENT FOR BUYING ONE OF MY GARMENTS
You need to feel the fabrics, mostly handwoven of cotton and rayon yarns, and try them on. I make a range of five sizes, with my medium roughly correlating to a size 12. However, each size has a fair amount of ease built in, to fit a range of different bodies, and there's a bit of overlap between the sizes.
When we meet at shows, I encourage all to try the garments on, because your idea of the perfect garment is likely to depend on how you like to wear clothes. Simple alterations are possible, but I don't do major overhauls.
INTERESTED IN SEEING MY WORK?
Come to an EXHIBITION or SHOW, or one of the SHOPS that carries my garments. If you've already seen the work, and wish to entertain placing an order, CONTACT ME for appropriate fabric samples.
