About Teri D. Inman

Teri’s family started spending summer vacations in the Creede, Colorado area in 1950. From the time that she was a young child, Teri’s dream was to live in the San Juan Mountains. The dream became a reality in 1976 when Teri and her husband, Rick, moved to Creede and opened the Bristol Inn Restaurant. Patrons enjoyed Chef Rick’s fabulous cuisine for 26 years. During those years Teri also began spinning, dyeing, weaving, and marketing her work through the Bristol Inn Gallery. Though the Bristol Inn Restaurant and Gallery closed its doors in 2002, Teri’s business, Bristol Yarnworks, has continued to grow.

Teri is passionate about the process of creating her designer originals, completing each step herself. She maintained a herd of cashmere goats for 15 years. So, in much of her work the process has included hand-combing fiber, spinning, dyeing, weaving, sewing and marketing. Teri particularly enjoys talking with customers and sharing with them the steps of her process. Visit Teri at her studio, which is open by appointment, or at the events where she exhibits and sells her Cashmere Collection and new Seasonal Collections.

Artist's Statement

Using my imagination and creating with my hands have been a life-long passion. For more than 30 years I have immersed myself in the fiber arts and have developed a successful business marketing my hand-woven designs. Complex colors and simple but elegant designs are the foundation of this success.

The colors that I formulate to dye fibers, yarns, and fabrics are inspired by the landscape that surrounds me daily in our mountain home, as well as the outstanding forms and colors encountered during travels in our beautiful United States and abroad. Dyeing becomes a process where creativity flows freely as I hand paint yarns or transform fabric colors into intricate designs with my own variation of arashi shibori.

I find great joy in the process of weaving the luxurious textures of cashmere and silk, fine wool, or Tencel, linen, cotton, and rayon into a sensual flow of fabric, which I then fashioned into distinctively styled garments and accessories.

Teri D. Inman
Fiber Artist

Selected Awards: Taos Wool Festival

2005:	Grand Champion Garment/Silver Medallion – Arashi Shibori Cashmere/Silk Vest
	1st Place – Arashi Shibori Cashmere/Silk Jacket
	1st Place – Arashi Shibori Cashmere/Silk Poncho
	1st Place – Arashi Shibori Cashmere/Silk Origami Tunic
2004:	Reserve Grand Champion Garment – Hand-knitted Rambouillet Sweater
	1st Place – Hand-dyed Rambouillet/Mohair Tunic
2003:	Grand Champion Garment/Silver Medallion – Cashmere/Silk Jacket
	1st Place – Rambouillet/Mohair Tunic
	1st Place – Cashmere/Silk Vest
2002:	Grand Champion Garment/Silver Medallion – Cashmere/Silk Vest
	1st Place – Handspun Cashmere/Silk Jacket
	1st Place – Cashmere/Cormo Tunic
2001:	Grand Champion Garment/Silver Medallion – Cashmere/Silk Jacket
	1st Place – Cashmere/Silk Tunic
2000:	1st Place – Cormo Tunic
1998:	1st Place – Cashmere Fleece

Selected Juried Exhibitions

2007:	Translations Gallery, Denver, CO – Off The Wall: A show of innovative three dimensional fiber and textile creations by Surface Design Association members in the Southwest Region.
2006:	Rio Grande County Museum – Weavers of the Valley
	The Art & Cultural Center/Adams State College – Weavers of the Valley
2005:	Lake City Arts Council – Fiber Celebration
2004:	Handweavers Guild of America – Convergence 2004 Fashion Show and Exhibit
	Adams State College – Handweavers of the San Luis Valley
	Handweavers Guild of Pueblo – Art from the Loom
2003:	Creede Repertory Theater – Lobby Art Show
2002:	Creede Repertory Theater – Lobby Art Show

Publications

2006:	The Process of Playing with Block Twill, by Teri D. Inman. Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot.
	Pg. 42-45. VOLUME XXXVII, NO 3, ISSUE 147, Summer 2006.
	Handweavers Guild of America.
	Creede's Artistic Treasurers, by David Basler.
	Pg. 26-37. Teri Inman, Fiber Arts, Pg 30. Creede Magazine. Fall 2006.