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Stacey Budge
Head Fiberista, UrbanGypZ.com
About UrbanGypZ
Fiber artist Stacey Budge — you might know her as UrbanGypZ — works out of a home studio just outside Raleigh, NC, where the loom is usually warped with something interesting and there’s fiber drying somewhere it shouldn’t be.
Her mission: to build a real community around freeform weaving and spinning — not a masterclass, a studio you belong to. She believes fiber art doesn’t need gatekeeping, and that the most interesting work happens when you stop trying to do it “right” and start finding your own visual language.
What she values:
- Permission over perfection — wonky, handmade, and a little imperfect is where the truth and the personality live. That’s not a flaw to fix, it’s the whole point.
- Peer, not authority — 18 years in, field-tested since 2008, still figuring things out in real time alongside you.
- Slow and intentional — natural fibers, upcycled textiles, anti-fast-fashion at the root of how she works and teaches.
- Community over content — the YouTube channel, the blog, and the online classes all exist to hand over what she knows, not to gatekeep it.
She shares it all — techniques, process, the messy middle — through her YouTube channel, her blog, and a growing set of online classes, all built to help other fiber artists stop asking permission and start weaving, spinning, and making like they mean it.
