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Paula Kautz-LaPorte is a weaver. Her work includes traditional style market baskets,
rag rugs, and children's rocking chairs with Shaker tape and splint seats.  Paula has updated traditional into modern by the addition of bright colors and contemporary materials such as belts and neck ties.  Her most unusual pieces are shoulder bags, barrels, and buckets made of reused belts.  She creatively combines multiple belts of various colors, styles, and embellishments which allow each item to be unique.

Paula is self-taught. She credits her elementary school Home Economic teacher, Mrs. Jackson, for fanning the flame of her creativity. Beyond pot holders, Paula's weaving took off around 1990 when she established herself as a seat weaver and
in 2006 she formally opened her business, Paula's Weaving Workshop in Bennington, Vermont.

She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont with her husband, children, and various cats
and dogs.

"I travel a weaver's path from pot holders
to chairs, to baskets and rugs.  As the connecting trails appear, I travel them to enhance my knowledge and experience.  Through my weaving I explore the elements
of form, function, color, and texture.  I want my creations to be interesting, unusual yet familiar, perhaps funky, perhaps beautiful
and definitely a pleasure to look at,
to touch, and to use."

Read her brief featured article.

Contact Paula
by phone: 802.442.4808
by email: paulalaporte@comcast.net
at: www.paulasweavingworkshop.net