Current teacher at Place des Arts (2025/2026 season)

 Biography

Catherine Dumaine is a local artist whose interest in the fibre arts began when she learned to sew in junior high school. This interest continued to expand at Centennial High School in Applied Design class with Nancy Kirk.

After high school, she studied Fashion Design at Douglas College and worked for 10 years as a Designer and Pattern maker with a local manufacturer.

She began exploring weaving and fibre arts again in 1997 and continues to study at Place des Arts and with a wide variety of workshops. Catherine is a member of the Coquitlam Weavers Guild, Vancouver Weavers and Spinners guild and the Dyepot club.

In 2007, she began teaching children’s fibre arts classes at Place des Arts as well as at many schools and other art centers and institutions around the lower mainland.

Her skills include loom weaving, felting, tapestry, basketry, spinning, dyeing, sewing & hand-made paper. What she loves most about weaving and fibre arts is that there is an endless amount of interesting things to learn and she loves to share what she learns with children of all ages.

 Artist Statement

Every year the Coquitlam Guild of Weavers and Spinners sets out a challenge for their members. The 2026 Challenge is “Lace Weave”. These challenges are enjoyable because they inspire me to learn new weave structures or dig deeper into patterns I have already tried.  I will often choose to weave a tea towel with each new pattern as they create something useful and are wonderful to give as gifts.  These two tea towels will be part of a gift basket that will be given as a wedding gift later this summer.

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