1/4 An exaample of fiber artist Esther Rodgers’ artwork. — Submitted

Karen Kistler

karen.kistler@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — Learning from her mother how to use a sewing machine as a child, fiber artist Esther Rodgers got her start in textiles, she said, “making patchwork clothes and selling them at Phish concerts and on eBay.”

After seeing some handspun yarn on a scrapbooking page, she decided to learn how to spin her own yarn, which she began in 2008. It was through this that Rodgers said she discovered her love for spinning, but her dislike for knitting and now needed to find a way to use the yard that didn’t require knitting.

Therefore, she acquired a secondhand loom and began to weave, which she said “was the missing piece to the puzzle,” and make clothes once again, this tim

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