Marion Bacon was a pioneering weaver who seamlessly merged artistry and craft.

Marion’s first weavings were done on a simple tapestry loom with fixed warp pitch. In 1968, while living in Vermont, she bought a Leclerc jack loom from Canada, a 27 inch Nilus that she used for the rest of her life. Her passion for weaving was supercharged. When Marion moved to Southern California, she purchased a 56 inch eight harness countermarch loom with fly shuttles, suitable for production work. This loom fell out of favor with her, and she found a new home for it. Besides having an artist’s mind, Marion also had a technical side (three brothers, all engineers or scientists). She became interested in double weave, often planning her designs on yards of graph paper. This led her to create her own form of triple weave.