Bonnie MacAllister

Behind the loom working on a weaving using recycled textiles

Artist friends visiting my studio

Working in my studio in preparation for “Weaving on the Waterfront” (August 1-31)

Bonnie MacAllister at Cherry Street Pier: Residency Show and Free 1st Friday Workshops — The Plastic Club Weaving on the Waterfront: A Third Year Residency Exhibition @cherrystreetpier August 1-31, 2025 Free First Friday from June 6th: Weave on No Waste Looms

Thank you to The Plastic Club for supporting the exhibition and for the call for partipation in the community installation of weaving on the waterfront on no waste looms: www.plasticclub.org/news/bonnie-...

Original weaving using handspun yarns and recycled textiles. Colors: yellow, blue, green, brown

Weaving created for Furnished for Good, Pathways to Housing PA.

Navajo loom in my studio. The orange art yarn is handspun and the neutrals are recycled textiles

Weaving on the Navajo loom in my studio. The orange art yarn is handspun and the neutrals are recycled textiles.

Yarns of mixed fibers: handspun from farm sourced merino wool, mohair from goats, recycled silks.

Handspun yarn from farm sourced fibers to be used in weaving

Weaving on a tiny upright loom. Handspun yarns: the pinks are recycled silk from factory waste and the browns are Plötulopi I brought back from my fiber tour of Iceland in 2017.

Weaving on a tiny upright loom. Handspun yarns: the pinks are recycled silk from factory waste and the browns are Plötulopi I brought back from my fiber tour of Iceland in 2017.

Weaving on Navajo loom using variegated fibers including handspun recycled silk from factory waste

Weaving with recycled textiles and mixed fibers including handspun yarn using recycled silk from factory waste

Exhibition flier features in process weaving with handspun art yarn made in the artist’s studio on the Waterfront

Save the Date: Weaving on the Waterfront: A Third Year Residency Exhibition, Cherry Street Pier, August 1-31, 2025 is an exhibition of work created, handspun, and woven. Installations by Jamie Campbell and a community project of original weavings on no waste looms constructed in free workshops

Original figurative weaving with dark mohair hair and a body of handspun wool and recycled textiles made on a small upright loom

Figurative weaving on a small upright loom for “Weaving on the Waterfront” (August 1-31) at Cherry Street Pier. Stop by Studio 16 First Fridays 5-7 to be part of a community collaborative project that will be part of the exhibition

This weaving is called “Roadrunner” made of handspun angora groomed from rescue rabbits, recycled silk, and other fibers

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Scenes from botanical dyeing as part of my residency of community fibers at Cherry Street Pier. We’re doing kerchief headbands next Sunday.

Weaving in my studio with handspun yarn and recycled heirloom fabrics

The fibers exhibition I curated opens next month: www.plasticclub.org/news/phantas...

Cherry Street Pier on Instagram: "Meet Bonnie MacAllister (@bonniemacart), a talented fiber artist known for her dynamic and interactive workshops. From intricate embroidery and delicate felting to th... 43 likes, 5 comments - cherrystreetpier on June 11, 2024: "Meet Bonnie MacAllister (@bonniemacart), a talented fiber artist known for her dynamic and interactive workshops. From intricate embroidery.....

My studio made a video for each of the resident artists: www.instagram.com/reel/C8Fr4cN...

Felted and embroidery piece titled “Sagas” using a variety of colorful wools

Thank you to the Plastic Club for sharing my exhibition news www.plasticclub.org/news/bonnie-...

Museum viewers of 60th Anniversary Auction at Yellowstone Art Museum

Now showing two pieces at Yellowstone Art Museum www.artmuseum.org/engage/yello...

Crochet fish by Jamie Campbell

Call for fiber art due 3/31/24: www.tumblr.com/certaincircu...

“Esme” (2024) embroidery, felting, and recycled textiles

Embroidery and felting, colors from Aurora Borealis, fibers of silk, mohair, and wool

“Our Lady of Silks and Botanicals” (2023) embroidery, felting, recycled textiles

Silk dyed with turmeric using shape resist technique, yellow in color with white square patterns

Kanoko “cloth dyed in a dappled pattern” shibori shape resist technique using turmeric. Shibori is a Japanese fabric dyeing technique: “to wring, to squeeze, and to press.”

Purple logwood circles and quebracho rojo diamond shapes repeating in shibori pattern

Quebracho rojo and logwood hajimi (accordion fold) and kanoko (shape resist) techniques (artist: Jamie Campbell in my Shibori Three Ways workshop)

Detail of fiber mural incorporating knitting, felting, and embroidery. Red haired figure surrounded by felted forms and a large knitted piece

Detail of my fiber mural in the Cherry Street Pier 5th Anniversary exhibition

Embroidery classes in Philadelphia

These workshops take place in the Lodge at Winterfest on the Delaware River Waterfront in Philadelphia Register here: square.link/u/ttVEqxXx

A peach, purple, and green pigment dyed silk scarf, plant based from rubia, logwood, and mulberry leaf.

Rubia, logwood, mulberry leaf … all plant based natural dyes on silk… so vibrant!

Embroidery portrait with curly locks from mohair goats surrounded with various dyed colors of merino wool and recycled wool

Starting to felt my embroidery portrait: mohair curly locks and dyed merino wool and recycled wool

Thumbnails of my original portrait embroideries

Thumbnails of some of my original embroidery portraits

Embroidery hoop with brown, blue, red stitches on a partially embroidered figure

Started a new embroidery (wool thread on cotton)

Embroidery and felted portrait of a woman in a foulard, studio walls and scarves in the background

Felting and framing in my studio

Art studio with new banner including seven work samples of embroidery and felted portraits

New studio banner for First Friday tonight