Weaverly

It’s been 20 years since the publication of The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard And Dobby Looms Using Photoshop® (see sidebar). Bhakti Ziek and I, at opposite sides of the country, thought it was important to document our individual explorations in digital weaving and make our joint efforts available to the weaving community. We worked remotely, emailing chapters back and forth to each other for revision and editing. We taught ourselves Adobe Indesign and did our own layouts. It was intense work and pretty much took over our lives for more than a year.

And now we’re very happy to announce that The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles is mounting an exhibition honoring our work on January 29 through May 11, 2026. To quote the museum newsletter, “This exhibition explores the rise of digital weaving which emerged in the early 2000’s. It brings together a variety of work by artists and designers who experiment with digital looms and jacquard software. It pays tribute to two artists in particular, Bhakti Ziek and Alice Schlein, who wrote The Woven Pixel (2006), which quickly became something of a bible for weavers in art, design and industry–and referenced still today.”