Ohio Designer Craftsmen

Janette Knowles is an art professor and textile artist who strives to create work as climate neutral (and climate beneficial) as possible. Her textiles are either hand-woven or upcycled and dyed using historical dye plants she cultivates in her garden. She dyes, weaves and stitches pieces that are meditations on the climate crisis and its collateral impact on the land as well as the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Her work, Dreams in the Seed Vault was created from vintage silk and linen, dyed with persimmon and black walnut and then hand embroidered.

See this beautiful piece in-person, along with work by 68 other artists, now through July 3rd, in the “Best of 2026” juried member’s exhibition. https://ohiocraft.org/best-of-2026/


Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026