Candiss Cole-Footitt & Rodger Footitt

Candiss uses silk yarns in all her work, first the yarn is dyed for texture and color, next the loom is loaded with one of a kind patterns. Placing the “warp” yarn to give mountain peaks and sweeping vistas, locked in place by colored “weft” yarns of silk, cotton and rayon, the Ikat style has become her handwoven world.

Always reaching for that next new idea she now weaves a post dyed shibori pattern to her Ikat styles. Silk has the regal charm to carry Candiss to places new. She constantly seeks the next level of color and design. Her feelings for fashion are stimulated from; New York’s highest lofts, the cold and windswept moors of Derbyshire and Yorkshire with their churning mists and soft morning light or colored hues of a summer morning no farther away than her own back yard.

The anchor to all this is her long time home in Sedona, Arizona, with husband Roger and Mary who keeps things all together, a cat, two dogs and wild bird feeders filled with flashes of color and busy chatter.

Quote: The romance of handwoven silk dares to reach out and touch the mysteries of female passion.

– Candiss Cole