Aether Awareness

From "Slices of Home" - a woven exhibition of artwork by Hannah Watson, hosted by Shop Lyko Slow Goods.

Aether Awareness was woven on the Olympic Peninsula in June of 2026, during the artists one year wedding anniversary trip.  

Made from indigo dyed paper, linen, silk, mohair, agave, mixed fiber, found material.

5" w x 8" h

Textile artist Hannah Watson presents Slices of Home, a body of woven work reflecting her felt sense of home, often found in the wilderness and always found in the 1920s South Carolina home she grew up in.  In these works, yarns dance to the core rhythmic universals of life, cycles of nature, and deeper rhythms at play underfoot that constellate familiarities of home.

*Studio photographs by Gaia Giladi.

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Hannah Watson (b. 1991, South Carolina) is a weaver, dyer, & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer.

Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. In 2018, she won a design award through the Handweavers Guild of America and has shown her work at galleries across the Carolinas and the Pacific Northwest, including Cloth Fiber Gallery, the Fine Arts Center, the Folk Art Center, the Asheville Area Arts Council, and Portland State University.

She currently lives in Portland, OR as a textile artist and as an instructor at WildCraft Studio School. Hannah also travels to teach weaving workshops at studios like Wool Friends weaving school in Seattle, Atelier in Reno, and nationally recognized weaving guilds around the US.

Learn more at www.hannahwatsontextiles.com