Katalin (Katy) Kovacs is a civil engineer by profession. Designing roads, bridges, structures made to last and connect people.

For Katy, weaving was not a manifest passion. “I had nothing to do with tradition or craft.” She first interacted with the weaving loom through her sister. 

Due to health reasons Katy's sister was unable to work. In these conditions, and in order to have an occupation, she ordered a weaving loom from a craftsman in Hungary. Katy was responsible for finding teachers to guide her sister through the techniques of warping, weaving, darning, and to help her with the selection of materials, patterns and colors. She felt that she wouldn’t have the necessary patience to weave herself. But only three months later she bought her own loom.

She started with making rugs and carpets from textile waste and wool, but she soon realised there are infinite possibilities to create structures on the loom. She enrolled in a professional weaving school in Hungary and after graduation she acquired a second weaving loom. Now she owns several manual weaving devices, of different types and sizes, and professional tools for warping, wefting and twisting yarn. With admirable mastery of her tools and intimate identification with them, Katy's handcrafted textiles are a testament of beauty.  She only works with yarns from natural fibers, such as cotton, wool, lienen, hemp and silk - woven in unique combinations.

Katy discovered in weaving not only a challenge, but also a therapeutic remedy, “a kind of bandage for the mind and the soul in a constantly changing world, overwhelmed by problems and difficulties.”  She reminds us not to give up our passions, because her acquired passion for weaving changed her life: "The most interesting thing for me was my transformation, the ability to perceive life differently, to discover the beauty of craft, the necessary patience, the pleasure and joy that the weaving loom gives me." 

Craftsmanship is not only about tools and traditions. It is a force  that can transform people and engineer change.