about yolanda

Yolanda Rommel started weaving in 1982 — as a self-taught amateur — and wove through 8 years as a full-time student living on campus. She continued weaving in my free time after graduation,   while holding a full-time, demanding job. She has experimented with freestyle as well as traditional weaving techniques.

Now, at the age of 89,  Yolandais still weaving! Her steady companions are an 8-shaft Baby Wolf (bought it in '82, well-used), a collection of homemade tapestry frame looms, and small Navajo-like looms of different sizes.

She has woven a few small Chimayo pieces and she really enjoy the wedge weave — but most of her work is a combination of elements from various styles and traditions.

Yolanda is "so excited about the Futuros Ancestral Weaving project, seeing it as such a wide-reaching way of promoting and supporting not only the art & craft of great cultural significance — but supporting lives lived close to and in harmony with the living land.  History has been brutal, and it is such a joy to see all the efforts toward renewal of a sustainable economy,  sustainable life."

selected weavings