Rachel Snack is a weaver, educator and textile artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University.
Rachel is the founder of Weaver House Co., a textile studio, yarn shop and weaving school dedicated to preserving craft tradition through hand-making and weaving education.
Rachel has conserved objects for exhibitions at The National Constitution Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, The NY Public Library and The Museum of Arts and Design. She has exhibited her work internationally, and taught courses on weaving and fiber dyeing to hundreds of students. She has been an artist-in-residence at T.E.X.E.R.E in Mexico, The Burren College of Art in Ireland, and Awamaki in Peru.
In-print features include Yarn-Thread-String, Weaving — Contemporary Makers on the Loom and Art in Ubiquity: The Handwoven Tea Towel. Recent podcasts include Material Culture by Weaver House, The Professional Weaver Podcast, The Weave Podcast by GIST Yarn & Fiber and The Crafter’s Box Podcast.
Exhibitions include Textiles: A Group Show at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn in 2021 and Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at the Craft in America Center in 2019.
Press for Weaver House & Rachel include Vogue, The Philadelphian Citizen, Hospitality Design, Surface, South Philly Review, Philly Mag, Architectural Digest, Philly Mag, LA Times and Creative Boom.
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