Welcome

14 Mile Farm tells stories in fiber, yarn and cloth, creating wearable art such as scarves, shawls, and cowls, heirloom home goods, and everyday accessories. The epitome of “slow craft,” 14 Mile Farm specializes in hand-dyed, hand-spun, and hand-woven luxury fabrics. Working with fibers from qiviut to merino to rose viscose and tencel, each textile is handwoven with love and magic. 14 Mile Farm also offers one of a kind handspun skeins and small batch colorways inspired by life in Alaska on a range of hand-dyed yarns and roving, hand carded batts, and custom-milled combed top incorporating natural and plant dyes as well as conventional indie dyeing techniques.

14 Mile Farm is in Fairbanks, Alaska on unceded traditional territory of the Lower Tanana Dene people or Tth’itu’Xwt’ana.

The Studio

I work from my home studio which comprises one half of our upstairs and is dedicated to looms and yarn and wool and dyes. More wool and spindles and spinning wheel and knitting needles spill into the rest of the house.

I’ve been weaving since 2007. My first formal training in weaving was under the tutelage of a traditional Navajo weaver; returning home after that experience I immediately signed up for floor loom classes here locally under Penny Wakefield with the Fairbanks Weavers and Spinner’s Guild and I’ve never really looked back. I lived for a few years in a one room cabin with my now-husband, our husky, and my 8 shaft loom taking up nearly a quarter of our floor space!

Weaving is to me so much more than the meticulous and challenging craft with ever-more to learn, it is more than the artistic and imaginative playground of color and fiber and draft and the million ways they intersect. It is more even than a practice of fine art or art at the intersection of craft. Weaving, to me, is very much a microcosmic expression of the whole glorious mysterious too-large-to-comprehend macrocosm that we live in. Weaving is intertwined with Fate and Grace and the 'fabric of the universe" in a myriad of mythologies - Navajo and Nordic come first to mind. By ordering and care-taking and expressing that which is beautiful, by engaging mindfully with the interlacement of threads, by approaching the loom as an act of magic, in tending the reflection of the universe on a small scale I am tending the reflection of the universe on a large scale. In that way, weaving is very much a part of my spiritual practice.

14 Mile Farm is not currently offering babywearing items for sale.