The Weaver - Sam Goates

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Sam Coates is a Weaver based in Buckie on the Murray firth in Scotland. After years of study in textile she found herself in Sydney, Australia for many years before moving back home and getting her hands on some old classic treadle looms and building Woven in the bone

Subject: Same Goates

Produced by: We Are Makers
Producers: Kate and Jack Lennie
DOP/ Cinematography: Danny Bonnar
Photography: Jack Margerison

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