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.
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
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."
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. 
