Dena Gartenstein Moses

4 Signal Pine Road
Putney, VT 05346

t. 802-387-2656

Chenille / Weaver

We have all experienced fiber from the moment we were born and wrapped in a baby blanket. We wear fibers, walk on them, hang them on our walls. This familiarity, along with fiber’s tactile quality give us an emotionally intimate context in which to experience a work. I feel intimacy is crucial for an effective piece; a way to experience work from the inside, to merge with it.

My primary line of work is in rayon chenille-scarves, shawls and garments to drape around your body, fleece and silk lined hats to keep you warm, blankets for comfort. I also offer a line of lighter weight tencel scarves whose colors move and dance with the light.

Weaving has come as a gift to me. Somewhere deep down, I have always been a weaver. The feeling of threads running through my fingers, the motion of the shuttle going back and forth are in my body, found in the way that my body will find a move in dance. The process of learning to weave felt like rediscovering something I knew a long, long time ago.

I have been weaving for twenty-two years. I feel blessed to have found my home in the beauty of Southern Vermont, surrounded by fields, woods, gardens and animals. This past year I opened The Vermont Weaving School in the old Putney Central School in Putney, Vermont. I am so grateful to be spending my life doing something that truly nurtures myself and others.

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