Bio
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| ABOUT |
| Jessica de Haas has held a life long fascination with fibre arts. It may have started when she received a Fisher-Price loom for her eighth birthday, and wove her first piece. Growing up rurally in the interior of British Columbia gave her a great appreciation for the beauty of the natural world, as well as nurtured her creativity and imagination. When she was a teenager she discovered batik and started her first clothing company. At 18 years of age, she went to Indonesia to study with a family of batik artists. This was the beginning of a series of travels involving grassroots study and involvement in the local communities where she visited. She studied fibre arts formally at Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson BC. In 2003 she started her felt clothing line, Funk Shui, and has been creating and selling out of her Granville Island atelier since 2006. She currently lives in Vancouver, BC, with her cat Wee- Bob, and loves to garden , dance, and play outside. |