To me weaverly is totally tactile, between my hands and my eyes and my feelings
- Silvia Heyden

A Weaverly Path offers an intimate, visually stunning portrait of Swiss-born tapestry weaver Silvia Heyden and captures the inner dialogue and meditations of an extraordinary artist in the moments of creation. The film follows Heyden for a year as she creates works inspired by the Eno River in Durham, North Carolina and shares how nature, music, her Bauhaus inspired education at the School of the Arts in Zurich and her life experiences anchor and inform her art. Heyden is a 20th century modernist whose body of work redefines the art of modern tapestry.

At eighty-three years young, Heyden continues to weave each day at her loom; and after producing more than 1000 tapestries, she is passionate about sharing her philosophy and approach to her creative process and passing on this knowledge to the next generation of tapestry weavers.

Born in Basel, Switzerland in 1927, Heyden is well known and respected in the network of tapestry weavers across the US. Her tapestries hang on the walls of collectors and institutions throughout the world, yet few have had an opportunity to witness the physical intimacy between Silvia and her loom.

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