Margaret (Pegg) Mathewson has been weaving for 45 years in a variety of world-wide techniques, ancient and contemporary. Beginning in Central California in the 1980s, they have worked in weaving guilds and galleries as well as in museums, universities and tribal organizations. Several branches of work include the technical analyses, histories, botanies, and ecological and social networks of traditional fiber arts. But 'making' is always the main goal, and passing on the knowledge to where it needs to go.

Their own work is a mix of ancient and contemporary, and focuses on natural materials. 

“I look at my current art as a celebration of the contrast between random free flow and exacting tradition. Both inform my work. I love the feel, color and texture of natural materials and found objects. Nothing can really improve on a scene from nature. I just feel I have to try putting together my own pictures.”