BROWN COW - Key Persons

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• Founder and Master Weaver

Tina B. Woolley draws inspiration from the support of other artists, Santa Fe's rich landscape and her passion for horses. In addition to honing her artistic craft, she remains an avid equestrian and is happy to marry her passions with the art of saddle blanket weaving under the tribute name of The Brown Cow Company. Read these articles about Tina B. Woolley that have appeared in the press during her career as a weaver! Tina B. Woolley's abiding fascination with Textile art dates back to her early years as a child and her grandmother's extraordinary home in northern New Mexico where one of Santa Fe's foremost Spanish Colonial collections - of both Textile and hand-crafted furniture - was on display. At age twelve, in this home, starting with a primitive Nambe loom, a bundle of wool and cotton, Tina embarked upon a career of art, fabric and timeless beauty drawn in large measure from the surrounding colors and starkness of New Mexico's famed cliffs, sand-ladened arroyos, and external vistas. At age 13 she began weaving for Alice Parrott at her Santa Fe studio on Canyon Road. This apprenticeship lasted though college. During the summers, at the Santa Fe Folk Art Museum, she studied weaving with a variety of noted textile artists such as Pear Sunrise, Kay Sakemachi, Gerhardt Knodel and Michelle Lester.