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.

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This is the title piece, Slices of Home, 2026.

Woven over 30+ hours in doubleweave structure, from paper, cotton, linen, silk, wool, mohair, mixed yarns, bamboo, found material.

5-15” wide x 76” long (~.41-1.25' w x 6.33' long)

Currently on show with us at Shop Lyko until September 23rd, 2026.

More from the artist:

"A tribute to my childhood home in South Carolina that my dad renovated over the course of 34 years. The piece maps the four seasons from bottom to top, from spring to winter, with South Carolina fireflies and jasmine and coastal spanish moss woven in. I was thinking a lot about the cycles and chapters of life as I wove it and how endings and death create empty space - the very top and bottom sections of simple emptiness - for new life and ways of being to come in. Feels strange to not have home base there for the first time in life but very grateful for years in this soulful home with its marble checkerboard and old pine slat board floors and the fig and peach trees in the yard. I hope whoever grows up there next can connect just as deeply with the soul of this old house 🌿 the twig at the top is from Mt Hood wilderness signaling my most recent life chapter holding the old SC house up as a foundation." 

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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

*Studio photographs by Gaia Giladi @gaiagirla.