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Homestead Weaving Studio
 
Weaving and Rugs

Homestead Weaving Studio is a small family-operated business in Brown County, Indiana, near the tourist mecca of Nashville,  which creates unique household items and clothing, and specializes in making HAND-WOVEN RUGS from recycled material. Most of the supplies we use for our rugs are byproducts of  other industries, where they are considered "scrap."   Our mission is to keep this usable material  from the waste stream.   We do custom spinning, dyeing and weaving and work with clients and interior decorators to create special pieces of art.

PRESS:
In February 2008, Chris was featured as an artist "Insight: Artists share their insights about recycled art"  in The Crafts Report magazine.
In the June, 2007 Midwest Living magazine, Chris' weaving and studio were included in an article called "Nurture the Spirit."
The fall/winter 2007 issue of "The Weavers Friend" featured Chris in a front page article.
Our rugs were featured in an article, "Rags to Riches" in the Sept/Oct. 2003 issue of Natural Home magazine.

 
Take a YouTube tour of Brown County, Indiana and then we invite you to visit our beautiful area in America's heartland, "The Art Colony of the Midwest."
 

This corduroy rug required
 25 pairs of pants and was        
woven for a client in Alaska.

  
Our hand-woven coat

was used in Mount Vernon (Ind.) High School's 1999 production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." It required over 6 yards of 54-inch wide fabric to complete.

socklooprug.jpg (105969 bytes)  Our double-wide sockloop rug has color inclusions to match the customer's dishes and measures 9 feet by 10 feet to fit under her dining room table. "The beautiful hanging came on Wednesday and I had it up already when my husband got home from work.  It was SO FUN to wait in the kitchen while he went upstairs to change and then came right down!  Such a fun surprise!  I LOVE IT! He just said how perfect it was...just what we always wanted for that space.  ... Chris, thank you so much for bringing to life, in such a beautiful way, what was in my head.  I am so lucky to have been able to partake of your talents."
Heather Pacheco, Michigan

 

We are a proud member of the Green Business Network and have been honored for our recycling efforts by the Brown County Solid Waste Management District. 

Homestead Weaving Studio
6285 Hamilton Creek Road
Columbus, IN 47201

Email:
chris@homesteadweaver.com
This page was updated February 13, 2008.
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Chris Gustin

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