Meet Artisan Market Artist Jennifer Triolo!

Fiber artist Jennifer Triolo from Mauston, WI creates sustainably sourced natural dyed and handwoven jewelry.

Jennifer, also known as Thready Jenny, describes her work and process:

Creating sustainable sourced natural dyed and hand woven jewelry. Natural dyes are foraged material found throughout Wisconsin. Fibers include cotton, jute, and silk, flax, and alpaca fiber and horsehair. 

Jennifer’s biography:

For the past six years Jennifer has been exploring natural dyeing, focusing specifically on creating dyes by gathering her own foraged materials. Jennifer has been practicing the ancient techniques of weaving and coiling which lead to her handwoven and natural dyed textile jewelry. Throughout central Wisconsin Jennifer has taught a variety of fiber art workshops. She has led natural dye courses along with needle felting, basket coiling and community weaving within the Wisconsin Valley Library Services. Jennifer’s work can be found in regional exhibitions and galleries. She now lives and creates in Mauston, Wisconsin.

Jennifer studied fine art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and Montana State University - Bozeman.  She earned a BFA in Fiber Art at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Peck School of Arts.