Fiber Talk with Ana Luiza Catalano

Thread-painting bird artist Ana Luiza Catalano joins us this week. The show is sponsored by the Embroiderers' Guild of America. The pandemic led Ana, an ornithologist by profession, to add thread painting to her study of bird songs and calls. We learned about her through an EGA blog article, linked below, and had to learn more. In addition to studying birds in North America, Ana regularly travels to her native Brazil to spend extended periods studying birds in the Amazon Rain Forest. In our conversation we learn about her work, a lot about birds, and do a deep dive into stitching process and how she went from relative beginner to accomplished needleworker in less than four years. Did you know that birds have a song and a call? That birds have dialects? How to use the finger ring of your scissors to transfer a design to ground cloth? Those are just some of the things we covered in our conversation.--Beth and Gary
Website: wetalkfiber.com
Instagram: / fibertalk
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Embroiderers' Guild of America website: egausa.org
EGA Blog article about Ana: egausa.org/com...
Ana Luiza Catalano on Instagram: / bordandoespecies
Music licensed from www.purple-plan...

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This was a wonderful interview. Extremely interesting and inspiring.