In this immersive week-long workshop, each participant will create their own double weave book— a handwoven textile object that serves both as a personal field guide and a vessel for memory. This workshop will combine weaving, walking, collecting, and observing. Amy will introduce the ingenious and meditative technique of double weave, a structure that allows for the creation of a two-layered textile with integrated pockets.
The woven book becomes both an object and a metaphor—a textile memory palace that records not only visual impressions but also a felt sense of place. It invites participants to engage with Jaipur through the lens of material, rhythm, and attention, and to respond with their hands, eyes, and intuition. This project holds its essence in the spiritual and deeply human resonance of weaving, and its power to contain, carry, and transform. It also highlights how woven textiles can take the form of a more sculptural object, coexisting with other materialities.
Discovering hand spun, hand-dyed threads in fibres such as sustainably grown Rajasthani cotton, Desi wool, lotus silk and hemp that will craft deeply personal, expressive pieces of cloth. Under the guidance of local artisans, we will dye our own yarns to be used in our weavings. Working on a pre-warped table loom, the process is welcoming and accessible to new weavers and allows for creative exploration for more experienced weavers. The course allows space for both structured learning and open-ended exploration. The goal is not technical perfection, but poetic resonance.
This week will focus on an in depth discovery of the city, collecting and creating a library of objects to be held in our books. Incorporating local artisan craft techniques including light metalwork, embroidery, paper making and more, we will experience a variety of artisan workshops behind closed doors. Photographs from our daily walking, small treasures and found objects, drawings, notes, and observations, fragments of inspiration collected along the way will add to the compendium.
Amy will be supported by experienced weavers from the region, creating space for a truly unique dialogue and insight into local weaving stories and practices.
Amy Revier grew up in Austin, Texas and received a BFA in Fine Art and Art History from The Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts. Whilst studying, she was awarded a grant to travel to Oaxaca to study backstrap weaving, where she honed her interest in the practice and received a grant for a floor loom. In 2009, Revier travelled to Iceland under The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program where she developed sculpture and textiles in relation to her time living there. In 2013 Revier produced her first collection of garments from her own textiles with support from Blue Mountain School, who also presented her work for Frieze Week in 2014 and 2019. Revier’s ongoing body of work entitled The Silent Traveller is a pairing of handwoven traveller’s clothes and traveller’s memoirs. The linen suit sets are soft uniforms, intended for sleep, play, working or exploring in, for both mental or physical travel. Revier is interested in the relationship between text, travel and textile and the translation of the articulated into feeling and movement, creating crossovers in checks, stripes, and single plains of colour to explore how we come to know things through the hand and the act of making. She is the Rolland Rome prize winner 2025 and is currently living and working at the American Academy of Rome.
In this immersive week-long workshop, each participant will create their own double weave book— a handwoven textile object that serves both as a personal field guide and a vessel for memory. This workshop will combine weaving, walking, collecting, and observing. Amy will introduce the ingenious and meditative technique of double weave, a structure that allows for the creation of a two-layered textile with integrated pockets.
The woven book becomes both an object and a metaphor—a textile memory palace that records not only visual impressions but also a felt sense of place. It invites participants to engage with Jaipur through the lens of material, rhythm, and attention, and to respond with their hands, eyes, and intuition. This project holds its essence in the spiritual and deeply human resonance of weaving, and its power to contain, carry, and transform. It also highlights how woven textiles can take the form of a more sculptural object, coexisting with other materialities.
Discovering hand spun, hand-dyed threads in fibres such as sustainably grown Rajasthani cotton, Desi wool, lotus silk and hemp that will craft deeply personal, expressive pieces of cloth. Under the guidance of local artisans, we will dye our own yarns to be used in our weavings. Working on a pre-warped table loom, the process is welcoming and accessible to new weavers and allows for creative exploration for more experienced weavers. The course allows space for both structured learning and open-ended exploration. The goal is not technical perfection, but poetic resonance.
This week will focus on an in depth discovery of the city, collecting and creating a library of objects to be held in our books. Incorporating local artisan craft techniques including light metalwork, embroidery, paper making and more, we will experience a variety of artisan workshops behind closed doors. Photographs from our daily walking, small treasures and found objects, drawings, notes, and observations, fragments of inspiration collected along the way will add to the compendium.
Amy will be supported by experienced weavers from the region, creating space for a truly unique dialogue and insight into local weaving stories and practices.
Amy Revier grew up in Austin, Texas and received a BFA in Fine Art and Art History from The Algur H. Meadows School of the Arts. Whilst studying, she was awarded a grant to travel to Oaxaca to study backstrap weaving, where she honed her interest in the practice and received a grant for a floor loom. In 2009, Revier travelled to Iceland under The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program where she developed sculpture and textiles in relation to her time living there. In 2013 Revier produced her first collection of garments from her own textiles with support from Blue Mountain School, who also presented her work for Frieze Week in 2014 and 2019. Revier’s ongoing body of work entitled The Silent Traveller is a pairing of handwoven traveller’s clothes and traveller’s memoirs. The linen suit sets are soft uniforms, intended for sleep, play, working or exploring in, for both mental or physical travel. Revier is interested in the relationship between text, travel and textile and the translation of the articulated into feeling and movement, creating crossovers in checks, stripes, and single plains of colour to explore how we come to know things through the hand and the act of making. She is the Rolland Rome prize winner 2025 and is currently living and working at the American Academy of Rome.
