About Jean Manrique

Fiber Artist & Instructor

Nature appears in my work on multiple levels, both in subject and material, and I find joy in bringing its whimsy and beauty into your day.

After many years of teaching Spanish, German, and French to junior high and high school students, I discovered a reignited passion in the fiber arts.

At a young age, I learned to sew from my mother and to knit from my host mother as an exchange student in Switzerland. In 2014, I discovered wet and needle felting which led to botanical printing, natural dyeing, indigo, and shibori. I now also work with hand stitching and shashiko techniques in the spirit of the slow stitch movement, allowing stitching to be a calming and meditative act. As a way to be kind to the environment, I challenge myself to use sewing and wet felt scraps, dye samples, and shibori practice pieces in creative and artful ways.

I hope that you will discover something I’ve made that will inspire you and awaken your sense of beauty, joy, and your own creative self. Or, sign up for a class and we can become inspired together.